#1147935 parser: FTBFS: with automake 1.19

Package:
src:parser
Source:
src:parser
Submitter:
Santiago Vila
Date:
2026-09-16 07:37:15 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1147935#5
Date:
2026-09-15 14:53:10 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/202609/

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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[...]
make[5]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/src/lib/cord'
make[4]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/src/lib/cord'
Making all in ltdl
make[4]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/src/lib/ltdl'
CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/bash '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/missing' aclocal-1.18 -I m4
/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/missing: line 85: aclocal-1.18: command not found
WARNING: 'aclocal-1.18' 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:395: all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/src/lib'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:395: all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/src'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:437: 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 failed with exit status 2
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#1147935#10
Date:
2026-09-16 07:35:32 UTC
From:
To:
unarchive 1118317
notfixed 1118317 2.5.4-6
reassign 1147934 libltdl-dev 2.6.2-2
reassign 1147935 libltdl-dev 2.6.2-2
reassign 1147936 libltdl-dev 2.6.2-2
reassign 1147937 libltdl-dev 2.6.2-2
reassign 1147938 libltdl-dev 2.6.2-2
forcemerge 1118317 1147934 1147935 1147936 1147937 1147938
affects 1118317 + src:redland src:squid
clone 1147935 -1
reassign -1 automake 1:1.19-2
retitle -1 Consider dropping alternatives handling as there are no alternatives to set
severity -1 minor
thanks

Santiago Vila wrote:

Every time there is a new major Automake release, this problem
resurfaces.  Ideally, it should be addressed in src:libtool by either

  1) Ensure that as soon as a new major Automake release is uploaded
  to unstable, a libtool sourceful upload is being made before
  Santiago (or Lucas) discovers that some packages FTBFS.

  2) Patch the libtool files (/usr/share/libtool/aclocal.m4, etc.) so
  that they don't require a specific Automake version or do some
  tricks like AUTOMAKE=automake and ACLOCAL=aclocal (these are
  versionless symlinks currently handled by dpkg-alternatives which I
  believe is a remnant from the old automake packaging when every new
  major release was a separate source package).