#1139436 utf8-locale: FTBFS: Unable to determine debhelper compatibility version.

#1139436#5
Date:
2026-06-08 23:37:36 UTC
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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/202606/

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:utf8-locale, so that this is still
visible in the BTS web page for this package.

Thanks.
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[...]
 debian/rules clean
dh 'clean'
   debian/rules override_dh_auto_clean
make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
dh_auto_clean --buildsystem=cmake
dh_auto_clean --buildsystem=pybuild
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pybuild", line 582, in <module>
    main(cfg)
    ~~~~^^^^^
  File "/usr/bin/pybuild", line 112, in main
    dh = DebHelper(build_options())
  File "/usr/share/dh-python/dhpython/debhelper.py", line 208, in __init__
    and self.compat() < 14
        ~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/usr/share/dh-python/dhpython/debhelper.py", line 247, in compat
    raise Exception("Unable to determine debhelper compatibility version.")
Exception: Unable to determine debhelper compatibility version.
dh_auto_clean: error: pybuild --clean -i python{version} -p "3.14 3.13" --parallel=2 returned exit code 1
make[1]: *** [debian/rules:32: override_dh_auto_clean] Error 25
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
make: *** [debian/rules:12: clean] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules clean subprocess failed with exit status 2
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#1139436#12
Date:
2026-06-11 17:58:07 UTC
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block 1139424 by 1139649
block 1139425 by 1139649
block 1139426 by 1139649
block 1139427 by 1139649
block 1139434 by 1139649
block 1139436 by 1139649
thanks

#1139436#17
Date:
2026-06-25 04:37:39 UTC
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Hi,

With https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1139649 now resolved and uploaded, can we close these bugs ?


Cheers!

Chris

#1139436#22
Date:
2026-06-25 05:07:38 UTC
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I've been working on these for the past couple of days (thaks for
your work!); the packages need a versioned dh-python dependency now,
and I've been doing some other minor refreshments.

G'luck,
Peter

#1139436#27
Date:
2026-06-25 05:11:05 UTC
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Awesome; FYI I am waiting for
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1139436 due to lava
being marked as testing auto-removal.

I can't take too much credit for fixing evertying though - it was just
a teeny patch ;-).

#1139436#32
Date:
2026-06-26 18:33:43 UTC
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Fixed by dh-python 7.20260623 in unstable.

Thanks for filing these bugs!

G'luck,
Peter