n0la/rcon

Missing Debhelper for Debian Pkg Build

Firworksyt opened this issue · 1 comments

Firworksyt commented

On Debian 11 Bullseye(x86_64), I followed the instructions to build the Debian package and issued:
sudo apt-get install git build-essential cmake check libbsd-dev libglib2.0-dev dpkg-dev

Then attempted to build with dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc -us
Which returned:

dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package rcon
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 0.6
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution unstable
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Florian Stinglmayr <fstinglmayr@gmail.com>
dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64
 dpkg-source --before-build .
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: Unmet build dependencies: debhelper-compat (= 12)
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: (Use -d flag to override.)

I then installed the debhelper package and dpkg-buildpackage built successfully. I was able to install the package and rcon appears to be functioning correctly. It seems like maybe the directions should be updated to add that additional package along with dpkg-dev. Otherwise is there a different solution to this issue I should have used instead?

n0la commented

Hi,

I have added a note that you also need debhelper package (alongside dpkg-dev) to build rcon to the README. According to the debhelper docs one does not need a build dependency to debhelper directly, if you build depend on debhelper-compat:

This also serves as an appropriate versioned build dependency on a sufficient version of the debhelper package, so you do not need to specify a separate versioned build dependency on the debhelper package unless you need a specific point release of debhelper (such as for the introduction of a new feature or bugfix within a compatibility level).

https://manpages.debian.org/testing/debhelper/debhelper.7.en.html

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