• Bug#1091990: dpkg-dev on sparc64: Undefined subroutine &Dpkg::OpenPGP::

    From Petter Reinholdtsen@1:229/2 to All on Fri Jan 3 08:40:01 2025
    XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist
    From: pere@hungry.com

    Package: dpkg-dev
    Version: 1.22.12
    Severity: important

    When trying to build kf6-kconfig version 6.8.0 on the sparc64 porterbox (stadler), I got this message when running 'debuild':

    (sid_sparc64-dchroot)pere@stadler:~/kf6-kconfig-6.8.0$ debuild
    dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -ui
    dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package kf6-kconfig
    dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 6.8.0-1
    dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution unstable
    dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Aurélien COUDERC <coucouf@debian.org>
    dpkg-source --before-build .
    dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture sparc64
    debian/rules clean
    dh clean
    dh_auto_clean --buildsystem=kf6
    dh_clean
    dpkg-source -b .
    Undefined subroutine &Dpkg::OpenPGP::Backend::g_ called at /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/OpenPGP/Backend.pm line 135.
    dpkg-source: info: using source format '3.0 (quilt)'
    dpkg-source: info: verifying ./kf6-kconfig_6.8.0.orig.tar.xz.asc dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b . subprocess returned exit status 255 debuild: fatal error at line 1184:
    dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -ui failed (sid_sparc64-dchroot)pere@stadler:~/kf6-kconfig-6.8.0$

    This made it a lot harder to build the package I wanted to get working.

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    Happy hacking
    Petter Reinholdtsen

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