Bug#1033417: newt: missing Build-Depends docbook

[Henry N.]

Package: newt
Version: 0.52.23-1
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
Usertags: rebootstrap

Dear Maintainer,

build in a minimal build environmet fails for docbook2html.

# apt source newt
# cd newt-0.52.23
# apt build-dep newt
... all dependency installed ...
# dpkg-buildpackage -B "-Pnocheck noinsttest noudeb" -uc -us
...
openjade:/tmp/newt-0.52.23/tutorial/../tutorial.sgml:1:61:W: cannot
generate system identifier for public text "-//Davenport//DTD DocBook
V3.0//EN"
openjade:/tmp/newt-0.52.23/tutorial/../tutorial.sgml:1:61:E: reference
to entity "ARTICLE" for which no system identifier could be generated
...
openjade:I: maximum number of errors (200) reached; change with -E
option
make[1]: *** [debian/rules:53: override_dh_auto_build] Error 8
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/newt/newt-0.52.23'
make: *** [debian/rules:14: build-arch] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build-arch subprocess returned
exit status 2

Workaround: After installing "docbook" it works.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-16-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/bash
Init: unable to detect

[Jochen Sprickerhof]

Hi Henry,

* Henry N. <henrynma...@yahoo.com> [2023-03-24 17:56]:

>build in a minimal build environmet fails for docbook2html.
>
># apt source newt
># cd newt-0.52.23
># apt build-dep newt
>... all dependency installed ...
># dpkg-buildpackage -B "-Pnocheck noinsttest noudeb" -uc -us
>...
>openjade:/tmp/newt-0.52.23/tutorial/../tutorial.sgml:1:61:W: cannot
>generate system identifier for public text "-//Davenport//DTD DocBook
>V3.0//EN"
>openjade:/tmp/newt-0.52.23/tutorial/../tutorial.sgml:1:61:E: reference
>to entity "ARTICLE" for which no system identifier could be generated
>...
>openjade:I: maximum number of errors (200) reached; change with -E
>option
>make[1]: *** [debian/rules:53: override_dh_auto_build] Error 8
>make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/newt/newt-0.52.23'
>make: *** [debian/rules:14: build-arch] Error 2
>dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build-arch subprocess returned
>exit status 2

I can't reproduce this with:

$ sbuild --no-arch-all --profiles=nocheck,noinsttest,noudeb -d unstable newt

>Workaround: After installing "docbook" it works.

newt build depends on docbook-utils that depends on docbook-dsssl that
depends on docbook so your minimal system should have installed that
already. Can you please verify?

Downgrading accordingly.

Cheers Jochen