Package: apt Version: 1.4~rc1 Severity: serious It seems invoking apt build-dep on a dsc doesn't always work:
> jrtc27@deb4g:~$ sudo apt build-dep > ~/src/debian-installer/debian-installer_201701XX.dsc > Note, using file > '/home/jrtc27/src/debian-installer/debian-installer_201701XX.dsc' to get the > build dependencies > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer > required: > libmagickcore-6.q16-2 libmagickwand-6.q16-2 libsane-bin python3-olefile > Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Using the package name still works though: > jrtc27@deb4g:~$ sudo apt build-dep debian-installer > Reading package lists... Done > Selected version '20170127' (unstable) for debian-installer > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer > required: > libmagickcore-6.q16-2 libmagickwand-6.q16-2 libsane-bin python3-olefile > Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. > The following NEW packages will be installed: > bf-utf-source debiandoc-sgml genext2fs genromfs libbogl-dev libbogl0 > libnewt-pic libroman-perl libslang2-pic libtext-format-perl mklibs mklibs-copy > 0 upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. > Need to get 1,743 kB of archives. > After this operation, 15.3 MB of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n This is the full dsc being used: > Format: 1.0 > Source: debian-installer > Binary: debian-installer > Architecture: any > Version: 201701XX > Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-b...@lists.debian.org> > Uploaders: Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> > Standards-Version: 3.9.5 > Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/debian-installer.git > Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/d-i/debian-installer.git > Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.0), apt (>= 0.8.16), apt-utils, gnupg, > debian-archive-keyring (>= 2006.11.22), dctrl-tools, wget, bc, > debiandoc-sgml, xsltproc, docbook-xml, docbook-xsl, libbogl-dev, > libslang2-pic (>= 2.0.6-4), libnewt-pic (>= 0.52.2-11.3) [!mipsel], > libnewt-dev (>= 0.52.2-11.3) [mipsel], libgcc1 [i386 amd64], genext2fs (>= > 1.3-7.1), e2fsprogs, mklibs (>= 0.1.40), mklibs-copy (>= 0.1.40), genisoimage > [!s390 !s390x], genromfs [sparc sparc64], hfsutils [powerpc], dosfstools > [i386 m68k amd64 armhf arm64], cpio, xz-utils, devio [armeb armel], slugimage > (>= 0.10+r58-6) [armeb armel], dns323-firmware-tools (>= 0.7.3-1~) [armel], > u-boot-tools [armel armhf], syslinux [i386 amd64], syslinux-utils [i386 > amd64], isolinux [i386 amd64], pxelinux [i386 amd64], syslinux-common (>= > 3:6) [i386 amd64], yaboot [powerpc], aboot (>= 0.9b-2) [alpha], silo [sparc > sparc64], sparc-utils [sparc sparc64], atari-bootstrap [m68k], vmelilo > [m68k], m68k-vme-tftplilo [m68k], amiboot [m68k], emile [m68k], > emile-bootblocks [m68k], apex-nslu2 [armeb armel], grub-efi-amd64-bin > [amd64], grub-efi-arm64-bin [arm64], grub-efi-ia32-bin [i386], grub-common > [amd64 arm64 i386], xorriso, grub-ieee1275-bin [ppc64el], u-boot-imx [armhf], > u-boot-omap (>= 2016.09~rc1) [armhf], u-boot-sunxi [armhf], u-boot-rockchip > (>= 2016.09~rc1) [armhf], u-boot (>= 2016.01+dfsg1-1~) [armel], tofrodos > [i386 amd64 kfreebsd-i386 kfreebsd-amd64], mtools [i386 m68k amd64 armhf > arm64 kfreebsd-i386 kfreebsd-amd64 hurd-i386], kmod [linux-any], > bf-utf-source [!s390 !s390x], mkvmlinuz [powerpc], openssl, win32-loader (>= > 0.7.2) [i386 amd64 kfreebsd-i386 kfreebsd-amd64 hurd-i386], makefs (>= > 20100306-5+kbsd8u1~) [kfreebsd-any], grub-pc (>= 2.02~beta2~) [kfreebsd-i386 > kfreebsd-amd64 hurd-i386], xorriso (>= 1.3.2-1~) [kfreebsd-i386 > kfreebsd-amd64 hurd-i386], debian-ports-archive-keyring [sh4 sparc64], > librsvg2-bin [any-amd64 any-i386] > Build-Conflicts: libnewt-pic [mipsel] > Package-List: > debian-installer deb devel optional arch=any > Checksums-Sha1: > dbb51d9c6be93bb3891c215a05f3bfb4eb5a33d5 21201400 > debian-installer_201701XX.tar.gz > Checksums-Sha256: > c925c952ae8be3d31ea8fbac60bc5497b0ed70bba1ecdadfb0cf4b6a9d111eb3 21201400 > debian-installer_201701XX.tar.gz > Files: > 12638f3c5fef207b58483ac0038464b3 21201400 debian-installer_201701XX.tar.gz Other dscs do seem to work, however. I don't know if this is a regression, but there is something weird going on. Regards, James