Pbuilder not picking up libming-dev build dependency

[JustinClift]

Hi all,

Trying to package Salasaga (an eLearning IDE), and I can't seem to tell pbuilder to include the "libming-dev" build dependency. :(

This is from the debian/control file I'm using:

Build-Depends: autoconf, pkg-config, libgtk2.0-dev (>=2.2.0), libglib2.0-dev (>=2.2.0), libgconf2-dev, libgnome2-dev, libming-dev, libxml2-dev

(Not that it DOES have libming-dev in there)

This is from the dsc that's created from it:

Build-Depends: autoconf, pkg-config, libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.2.0), libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.2.0), libgconf2-dev, libgnome2-dev, libming-dev, libxml2-dev

(Yep, it's there too)

But pbuilder keeps on failing:

<initial lines snipped>
Installing the build-deps
-> Attempting to parse the build-deps : pbuilder-satisfydepends,v 1.29 2006/11/06 20:20:56 lool Exp $
-> Considering build-dep autoconf
-> Trying autoconf
-> Considering build-dep pkg-config
-> Trying pkg-config
-> Considering build-dep libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.2.0)
-> Trying libgtk2.0-dev
-> Considering build-dep libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.2.0)
-> Trying libglib2.0-dev
-> Considering build-dep libgconf2-dev
-> Trying libgconf2-dev
-> Considering build-dep libgnome2-dev
-> Trying libgnome2-dev
-> Considering build-dep libming-dev
-> Trying libming-dev
-> Cannot install libming-dev; apt errors follow:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package libming-dev
W: Unable to locate package libming-dev
E: Could not satisfy build-dependency.
E: pbuilder-satisfydepends failed.
Copying back the cached apt archive contents
-> unmounting dev/pts filesystem
-> unmounting proc filesystem
-> cleaning the build env
-> removing directory /var/cache/pbuilder/build//18631 and its subdirectories
$

Have already tried using the "create" and "update" commands for pbuilder, and although they complete, they don't appear to have added in libming-dev to anything. pbuilder "build" still fails with this exact same error message afterwards. :-/

Also, libming-dev is 100% installed on this system, as the Salasaga package happily builds from source on it.

So, anyone have any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

This is really frustrating. :(

[deuce868]

Just an idea here, but perhaps when you built pbuilder it isn't using all of the repositories? I'm not sure which is uses by default, but I know I generally create my pbuilder env. with
sudo pbuilder create --distribution gutsy \
--othermirror "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy universe multiverse

and I wonder if the libming-dev is outside the normal scope.

You can actually get a shell into your pbuilder environment and probably check the apt sources.list file. Otherwise I'm not sure how to change that after the fact.

[JustinClift]

Hi,

Yeah, no real idea.

The workaround was to just use "debuild" instead of pbuilder. The packages create and work fine from that. :)