dpkg-shlibdeps: error: package. is not a valid version

 status invalid
 done

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> dpkg-shlibdeps: error: package. is not a valid version

The error is explicit. Something, somewhere, uses a package version
"package." and versions are not allowed to start with a letter, they must
start with a digit.

Try looking into shlibs and symbols files in particular. I was unable to
find anything in "precise"... so it must be something specific to your daily
build environment.

Try running dpkg-shlibdeps in verbose mode (-v -v) to have a better idea
where this is found.

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On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, Raphaël Hertzog wrote:
> Try looking into shlibs and symbols files in particular. I was unable to
> find anything in "precise"... so it must be something specific to your daily
> build environment.

Or rather I installed the build-dependencies of vlc in precise and did not
find any such version in symbols/shlibs on my precise chroot. But if you
have new build-deps in your daily build, it's still possible that they are
broken in precise.

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Here's the build log which runs dpkg-shlibdeps in verbose mode: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/83339925/buildlog_ubuntu-precise-amd64.vlc_1.2.0~~git20111020%2Br956-0~r46~precise1_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz

The build log isn't very useful. I ran "grep -ir 'package\.' /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.symbols" and revealed libegl1-mesa as source for the problem. The head of libegl1-mesa:amd64.symbols is

libEGL.so.1 libegl1-mesa #MINVER# | libegl1-x11
 # package.
 _eglBindContext@Base 7.8.1
 _eglBindTexImage@Base 7.8.1

Is a line that start with a space followed by a # considered as comment? In this case it would be a bug in dpkg-shlibdeps, otherwise it's a bug in mesa.

On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> libEGL.so.1 libegl1-mesa #MINVER# | libegl1-x11
> # package.
> _eglBindContext@Base 7.8.1
> _eglBindTexImage@Base 7.8.1
>
> Is a line that start with a space followed by a # considered as comment?

No, comments must have their # on the first character of the line (and
they are usually stripped in the symbols file that ends up in the .deb).

As it is, it's parsed as symbol "#" associated to version "package.".
Hence the error message you saw.

> In this case it would be a bug in dpkg-shlibdeps, otherwise it's a bug
> in mesa.

 affects ubuntu/mesa

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I'm having the same issue, but with kde-workspace. Note that the same package builds OK in Oneiric.

dh_shlibdeps -pkde-workspace-dev -- -xkde-runtime
dh_shlibdeps -plibkdecorations4 -plibkwineffects1abi2 -plibkwineffects1abi2-gles -plibkephal4abi1 -plibkscreensaver5 -plibksgrd4 -plibksignalplotter4 -plibkworkspace4 -pliblsofui4 -plibplasmaclock4abi2 -plibplasma-geolocation-interface4 -plibplasmagenericshell4 -plibprocesscore4abi1 -plibprocessui4a -plibsolidcontrol4abi2 -plibsolidcontrolifaces4abi2 -plibtaskmanager4abi2 -plibweather-ion6 -- -xkde-runtime
dpkg-shlibdeps: error: package. is not a valid version
dh_shlibdeps: dpkg-shlibdeps -Tdebian/libkwineffects1abi2-gles.substvars -xkde-runtime debian/libkwineffects1abi2-gles/usr/lib/libkwineffects.so.1.0.0.abi2 returned exit code 255
make[2]: *** [override_dh_shlibdeps] Error 255

Faillog:
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/82812618/buildlog_ubuntu-precise-amd64.kde-workspace_4%3A4.7.2git20111014-precise%7Eppa1_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz

This bug was fixed in the package mesa - 7.11-0ubuntu4

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mesa (7.11-0ubuntu4) precise; urgency=low

  * Fix comments in libegl1-mesa.symbols to avoid build failures with
    dpkg-dev 1.16.1 (Closes: #642690, LP: #878562).
 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:53:25 +0200