Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build
on amd64.


Relevant part (hopefully):
The full build log is available from:
http://qa-logs.debian.net/2022/03/26/libnih_1.0.3-12_unstable.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

If you reassign this bug to another package, please marking it as 'affects'-ing
this package. See https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#affects

If you fail to reproduce this, please provide a build log and diff it with mine
so that we can identify if something relevant changed in the meantime.

Hi,

Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
2016 and IIRC doesn't have many reverse dependencies anymore.

"dak rm" even doesn't argue at all:

coccia% dak rm --no-action libnih
Will remove the following packages from unstable:

    libnih |   1.0.3-12 | source
libnih-dbus-dev | 1.0.3-12+b2 | amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x
libnih-dbus1 | 1.0.3-12+b2 | amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x
libnih-dev | 1.0.3-12+b2 | amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x
   libnih1 | 1.0.3-12+b2 | amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x
nih-dbus-tool | 1.0.3-12+b2 | amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x

Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
------------------- Reason -------------------

----------------------------------------------

coccia%

But a short look through those binary packages most likely having
reverse-dependencies (libnih-dbus1 and libnih1), I though found a
single reverse dependency not coming from the libnih package:

$ apt-cache rdepends libnih1
libnih1
Reverse Depends:
  libnih-dbus1
  libnih1-dbgsym
  nih-dbus-tool
  libnih-dev
$ apt-cache rdepends libnih-dbus1
libnih-dbus1
Reverse Depends:
  libnih-dbus-dev
  libnih-dbus1-dbgsym
  libldm-priv-common0
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

So with just one reverse dependency left and being orphaned since
2016, it's probably time for removal.

Cc'ing the package maintainers of the sole reverse dependency I've
found, lomiri-download-manager (source package of libldm-priv-common0)
for a comment how "needed" libnih is in their package.

		Regards, Axel
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Hi Axel,

I will bring this up in our next upstream dev meeting and see what we
can do about this.

Personally, I think the dependency on libnih-dbus-dev looks so minimal
in lomiri-download-manager, it should be replacable.

Mike

Hi Mike and Axel,


libnih has been removed as dependency for lomiri-donwload-manager for a
good while upstream [0] but has not had a release with this in it yet.
So I make a new released lomiri-download-manager 0.1.1 with libnih
removed as dep, and uploaded this to unstable. So nih can be removed IMO.


[0]
https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/core/lomiri-download-manager/-/commit/f84d397e9899b5b45093913131906e6edd2cfd9f


Best regards,

Marius Gripsgard

On Sun, 27 Mar 2022 19:53:48 +0000 Mike Gabriel <sunweaver@debian.org>
wrote:

 > Hi Axel,
 >
 > On Sa 26 Mär 2022 23:57:57 CET, Axel Beckert wrote:
 >
 > > But a short look through those binary packages most likely having
 > > reverse-dependencies (libnih-dbus1 and libnih1), I though found a
 > > single reverse dependency not coming from the libnih package:
 > >
 > > $ apt-cache rdepends libnih1
 > > libnih1
 > > Reverse Depends:
 > > libnih-dbus1
 > > libnih1-dbgsym
 > > nih-dbus-tool
 > > libnih-dev
 > > $ apt-cache rdepends libnih-dbus1
 > > libnih-dbus1
 > > Reverse Depends:
 > > libnih-dbus-dev
 > > libnih-dbus1-dbgsym
 > > libldm-priv-common0
 > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 > >
 > > So with just one reverse dependency left and being orphaned since
 > > 2016, it's probably time for removal.
 > >
 > > Cc'ing the package maintainers of the sole reverse dependency I've
 > > found, lomiri-download-manager (source package of libldm-priv-common0)
 > > for a comment how "needed" libnih is in their package.
 >
 > I will bring this up in our next upstream dev meeting and see what we
 > can do about this.
 >
 > Personally, I think the dependency on libnih-dbus-dev looks so minimal
 > in lomiri-download-manager, it should be replacable.
 >
 > Mike
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Hi Marius,

Marius Gripsgard wrote:

Ah, nice!

Yay! Thanks a lot.

Done so now: https://bugs.debian.org/1013225

		Regards, Axel

Dear submitter,

as the package libnih has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1013225

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