#1070253 ddnet FTCBFS: upstream has rather un-Debiann-ish ideas about how cross compilation should work

Package:
src:ddnet
Source:
src:ddnet
Submitter:
Helmut Grohne
Date:
2026-06-05 10:21:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1070253#5
Date:
2024-05-02 18:44:04 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

ddnet fails to cross build from source. Digging into this I found that
ddnet upstream has a very different idea about cross building from
Debian. For instance, ddnet stops using any kind of system libraries and
expects that you vendor them all into the ddnet source code. Also they
immediately opt out of using pkgconf for cross compilation. This is very
much not what we do in Debian. I managed to make it cross buildable, but
given how ddnet upstream has chosen to implement cross building, I
expect that they very much won't like this patch. Possibly, there could
be some kind of global switch between that vendoring-world that they
want and that "like native" world that Debian's cross build environment
is? Do you mind maintaining this patch in the source package?

Helmut
#1070253#10
Date:
2026-06-05 10:18:45 UTC
From:
To:
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
ddnet, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1070253@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Sébastien Noel <twolife@debian.org> (supplier of updated ddnet package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:32:33 +0200
Source: ddnet
Architecture: source
Version: 19.1-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Sébastien Noel <twolife@debian.org>
Closes: 1070253 1123883
Changes:
 ddnet (19.1-3) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Team upload.
   * Regenerate rust bridge during build to fix FTBFS with cxxbridge 1.0.192.
     (Closes: #1123883)
   * Backport 3 upstream patches to fix another build failure
     when regenerating rust bridge.
   * Add patch from Helmut Grohne to fix cross build (Closes: #1070253)
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