Bug#634529: libconfig-model-perl: FTBFS: dpkg-deb: error: parsing file 'debian/libconfig-model-perl/DEBIAN/control' near line 7 package 'libconfig-model-perl':

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:22:30 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote:

> > It fails to open /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin and then the package lists and
> > status file could not be parsed.

> I think it's related to this debian/control snippet introduced in last version 
> of libconfig-model-perl package:

> ${corelist:Depends} is computed in debian/rules:
>   CORELIST = $(shell apt-cache policy libmodule-corelist-perl | awk 
> '/Candidate/ {sub(/-[^-]+$$/,"",$$2); print $$2;}')

Yes, of course, that's the point where it's failing ...
  	
> Looks like CORELIST variable can be empty in the buildd. 

... because of the "fails to open /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin".
Now the interesting question is _why_ this happens.

> We need to re-think how this dependency is computed.

Hm, yeah, as Lucas has proven that might be too fragile ...

Any ideas on how to get the version without using apt-cache?
Or should we use a default version if we don't get the real one?
Or something completley different?

Cheers,
gregor

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