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FTBFS in natty: fatal error: linux/videodev.h: No such file or directory

Bug #721399 reported by Lorenzo De Liso on 2011-02-18

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	hal (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Martin Pitt

Bug Description

Binary package hint: hal

The latest hal version in Ubuntu FTBFS due to being unable to ship an header. The header which it tries to ship, has been removed from the linux kernel since the version 2.6.38. Hence, it shouldn't be no longer shipped. This also led to a FTBFS of the package [1].

[1] http://launchpadlibrarian.net/63796245/buildlog_ubuntu-natty-i386.hal_0.5.14-5_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/natty/hal

lp:debian/hal

lp:ubuntu/oneiric/hal

Lorenzo De Liso (blackz) on 2011-02-18

Changed in hal (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → High
status:	New → Triaged

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Lorenzo De Liso (blackz) wrote on 2011-02-18:

hal_0.5.14-5ubuntu1.debdiff Edit (3.9 KiB, text/plain)

The attached patch fixes the issue.

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Michael Casadevall (mcasadevall) wrote on 2011-02-24:

I reviewed the attached patch and it seems sane to me, although it might be worthwhile to either have the patch detect at runtime if V4L or at compile time instead of just removing all the old code. I tried to test build this package, but due to archive skew, I wasn't able to; I'd also like someone more experienced in HAL to review this change for sanity.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2011-02-25:

I already fixed that upstream a few days ago:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/hal/commit/?id=8f624253f0135ca77a893ad4e8168f51ef90d4da

and committed it to the hal debian SVN. I'll upload it soon.

Changed in hal (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Martin Pitt (pitti)
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2011-02-25:

This bug was fixed in the package hal - 0.5.14-5+svn1

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hal (0.5.14-5+svn1) natty; urgency=low

Upload current Debian svn head to fix FTBFS.

  * Add 00upstream_video4linux_check.patch: Do not build
    hald-probe-video4linux if v4l1 is not available. (LP: #721399)
  * Refresh 99-autoreconf.patch for above.
  * 45-fix-libusb-detection.patch: Unfuzz.
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:45:59 +0100