Bug#1065212: asymptote: recent libc6-dev change causes XDR and V3D support to be dropped
Source: asymptote
Version: 2.86+ds1-1
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
User: debian-glibc@lists.debian.org
Usertags: libtirpc-dev
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 XDR and V3D
support in asymptote to be dropped, something which is not recommended
by upstream.
This can 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.
Regards
Aurelien
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