Source: caml-crush
Version: 1.0.12-1.1
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)

Dear maintainer,

Starting with glibc 2.31, support for NIS (libnsl library) has been
moved to a separate libnsl2 package. In order to allow a smooth
transition, a libnsl-dev, which depends on libtirpc-dev, has been added
to the libc6-dev package.

The libnsl-dev dependency has been temporarily dropped in the 2.37-15.1
NMU, as part of the 64-bit time_t transition. This causes caml-crush to
FTBFS in sid with:

| checking for gawk... no
| checking for mawk... mawk
| checking for camlidl... yes
| checking for spatch... yes
| Detected coccinelle version 1.1.1
| configure: Using default C based client and RPC
| checking for getnetname in -ltirpc... no
| configure: Using the glibc RPC implementation
| checking for rpc/rpc.h... no
| configure: error: Could not find C RPC headers.
| cd build-SERVER && tail -v -n \+0 config.log

This could be fixed by adding an explicit Build-Depends on libtirpc-dev.
The glibc change will likely be reverted in the short term, but given
its a change we want to do for Trixie, this will only lower the severity
of the bug.

I also noticed that caml-crush, uses rpcgen, provided by the
rpcsvc-proto during the build process. It is currently a dependency of
the libc6-dev package for the same reason as libnsl-dev, and will be
removed at some point. Therefore please also add an explicit
Build-Depends on rpcsvc-proto.

Regards
Aurelien

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