[Bug 1965800] Re: debhelper in focal-backports not usable for i386 package building (missing dependency)

[Mattia Rizzolo]

So it would need 2 addition to the i386 whitelist.

Feel free to bring an archive administrator in the loop, I think it's only
them who have the power to do that (if we want to go through that route).
Except that I just realized that rpm (and debugedit) in focal are in
universe.  So it would also need a MIR, which is definitely not happening
for a stable release.
I also guess that's the reason debugedit was split off rpm.

So I suppose we either need to check whether backporting debugedit would
make it build on i386, or revert that change in debhelper.


On Tue, 22 Mar 2022, 1:31 pm David Ward, <1965800 at bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:

> I am able to build src:rpm for focal i386 using pbuilder, as long as
> p7zip-full:i386 is built first.
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Title:
  debhelper in focal-backports not usable for i386 package building
  (missing dependency)

Status in debhelper package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in debugedit package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  focal-backports contains debhelper 13.5.2ubuntu1~bpo20.04.1. This is
  an architecture-independent package, but it depends on debugedit,
  which is architecture-dependent.

  The debugedit package exists in focal-universe for amd64, but not for
  i386. As a result, Launchpad is not able to build PPA packages
  targeting focal i386 that require debhelper-compat (= 13).

  This would appear to be an oversight. It does not affect bionic,
  hirsuite, impish, or jammy; all of these contain the debugedit:i386
  package. (It was moved from universe to main at some point after
  focal.)

  
  See from Colin Watson: https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/701011

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