[Spice-devel] Minute bug fix for spice 0.12.4 for Debian based linux

[Jonathon Jongsma]

On Wed, 2015-03-04 at 21:55 +0530, sujay wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I recently found downloading spice source (version 0.12.4) on Ubuntu
> 14.04.2 Linux from Ubuntu repo creates an error as shown below
> 
> 
> {{{
> $ apt-get source spice
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> NOTICE: 'spice' packaging is maintained in the 'Git' version control
> system at:
> git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/spice.git
> Need to get 1,744 kB of source archives.
> Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main spice
> 0.12.4-0nocelt2 (dsc) [2,236 B]
> Get:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main spice
> 0.12.4-0nocelt2 (tar) [1,719 kB]
> Get:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main spice
> 0.12.4-0nocelt2 (diff) [23.0 kB]
> Fetched 1,744 kB in 3s (487 kB/s)
> gpgv: Signature made Friday 08 November 2013 09:25:11 PM IST using RSA
> key ID 68C097BC
> gpgv: Can't check signature: public key not found
> dpkg-source: warning: failed to verify signature
> on ./spice_0.12.4-0nocelt2.dsc
> dpkg-source: info: extracting spice in spice-0.12.4
> dpkg-source: info: unpacking spice_0.12.4.orig.tar.bz2
> dpkg-source: info: unpacking spice_0.12.4-0nocelt2.debian.tar.gz
> dpkg-source: info: applying fix-tests-warnings.patch
> dpkg-source: info: applying make-celt-to-be-optional.patch
> dpkg-source: info: applying
> link-server-test-with-libm-libpthread.patch
> dpkg-source: info: fuzz is not allowed when applying patches
> dpkg-source: info: if patch
> 'link-server-test-with-libm-libpthread.patch' is correctly applied by
> quilt, use 'quilt refresh' to update it
> dpkg-source: error: expected ^--- in line 2 of diff
> `spice-0.12.4/debian/patches/link-server-test-with-libm-libpthread.patch'
> Unpack command 'dpkg-source -x spice_0.12.4-0nocelt2.dsc' failed.
> Check if the 'dpkg-dev' package is installed.
> E: Child process failed
> }}}
> 
> 
> 
> Close verification of the error i found it was problem with the
> creation of the patch named
> "link-server-test-with-libm-libpthread.patch", which needs to be
> corrected as following:
> {{{
> --- orig.link-server-test-with-libm-libpthread.patch    2015-03-04
> 21:38:43.148064124 +0530
> 
> +++ link-server-test-with-libm-libpthread.patch 2015-03-04
> 21:39:01.952157368 +0530
> @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
> -Compile server/test/* with -lm -lpthread option, or compile will
> fail--- a/server/tests/Makefile.am
> +Compile server/test/* with -lm -lpthread option, or compile will fail
> +--- a/server/tests/Makefile.am
>  +++ b/server/tests/Makefile.am
>  @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
>   LDADD =                 
> }}}
> 
> 
> Hope this could be updated in future releases, if i am posting in a
> wrong listing. Let me know
> 
> 
> -Sujay
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This appears to be an Ubuntu packaging issue. Feel free to report it to
Ubuntu. This is not the correct list.

Jonathon