#1118317 libtoolize installs aclocal.m4 which depends on a specific automake version

Package:
libltdl-dev
Source:
libltdl-dev
Description:
System independent dlopen wrapper for GNU libtool (headers)
Submitter:
Santiago Vila
Date:
2026-09-16 07:37:14 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1118317#5
Date:
2025-10-17 23:09:00 UTC
From:
To:
Dear maintainer:

During a rebuild of all packages in unstable, this package failed to build.

Below you will find the last part of the build log (probably the most
relevant part, but not necessarily). If required, the full build log
is available here:

https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/build-logs/202510/

About the archive rebuild: The build was made on virtual machines from AWS,
using sbuild and a reduced chroot with only build-essential packages.

If you cannot reproduce the bug please contact me privately, as I
am willing to provide ssh access to a virtual machine where the bug is
fully reproducible.

If this is really a bug in one of the build-depends, please use
reassign and add an affects on src:parser, so that this is still
visible in the BTS web page for this package.

Thanks.
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[...]
Making all in ltdl
make[4]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/src/lib/ltdl'
CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/bash '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/missing' aclocal-1.17 -I m4
/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/missing: line 85: aclocal-1.17: command not found
WARNING: 'aclocal-1.17' is missing on your system.
         You should only need it if you modified 'acinclude.m4' or
         'configure.ac' or m4 files included by 'configure.ac'.
make[4]: *** [Makefile:566: aclocal.m4] Error 127
make[4]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/src/lib/ltdl'
make[3]: *** [Makefile:394: all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/src/lib'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:394: all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/src'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:428: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
dh_auto_build: error: make -j2 returned exit code 2
make: *** [debian/rules:7: binary] Error 25
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit status 2
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#1118317#10
Date:
2025-10-18 20:07:31 UTC
From:
To:
Santiago Vila wrote:

This is a reincarnation of #905841.

#1118317#23
Date:
2025-10-20 16:49:25 UTC
From:
To:
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
libtool, 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 1118312@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@debian.org> (supplier of updated libtool package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:59:20 +0100
Source: libtool
Architecture: source
Version: 2.5.4-6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@debian.org>
Changed-By: Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@debian.org>
Closes: 1118312
Changes:
 libtool (2.5.4-6) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Depend on automake >= 1.18. Closes: #1118312
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