Ubuntu and Debian packages in OBS are missing libddcutil.so.x.x.x

[w8jcik]

Ubuntu and Debian packages in OpenSUSE Build Service are missing libddcutil.so. They only contain a broken symlink. Not sure about the other distributions.

Details

Example Docker recipe to reproduce the issue

FROM ubuntu:24.04

ARG SUSE_NAME="xUbuntu_24.04"
ARG DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

RUN apt update -y
RUN apt upgrade -y

RUN apt install libglib2.0-dev -y
RUN apt install curl gpg -y

RUN echo "deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/rockowitz/${SUSE_NAME}/ /" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home:rockowitz.list
RUN curl -fsSL "https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:rockowitz/${SUSE_NAME}/Release.key" | gpg --dearmor | tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/home_rockowitz.gpg > /dev/null

RUN apt update -y
RUN apt install ddcutil libddcutil-dev -y

Listing files in a package dpkg -L libddcutil-dev

/.
/usr
/usr/include
/usr/include/ddcutil_c_api.h
/usr/include/ddcutil_macros.h
/usr/include/ddcutil_status_codes.h
/usr/include/ddcutil_types.h
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/ddcutil
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/ddcutil/FindDDCUtil.cmake
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/ddcutil.pc
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/libddcutil-dev
/usr/share/doc/libddcutil-dev/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libddcutil-dev/CHANGELOG.md.gz
/usr/share/doc/libddcutil-dev/NEWS.md.gz
/usr/share/doc/libddcutil-dev/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/libddcutil-dev/copyright
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libddcutil.so

Listing files in a package dpkg -L libddcutil4

/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/libddcutil4
/usr/share/doc/libddcutil4/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/libddcutil4/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/libddcutil4/copyright

Inspecting /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libddcutil.so

ls /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -l

...
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       19 Feb  7 09:00 libddcutil.so -> libddcutil.so.5.1.2 
...

(broken link, /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libddcutil.so.5.1.2 does not exist)

I noticed it trying to build ddcutil-service

make

...
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lddcutil: No such file or directory
...

The same issue is present in the other Ubuntu and Debian versions.

Are OBS recipes available in some public repository? It would help diagnosing and fixing packaging issues.

[w8jcik]

Thank you for fixing it. The library is present now and it works fine. Tested by building and using ddcutil-service. The issue can be closed.

[rockowitz]

Fixed flibddcutil5-2.1.3-1 and libddcutil5-2.1.4-1 for Debian and Ubuntu releases. For RPM based distributions (e.g. openSUSE, Fedora), the packaging is orchestrated by file ddcutil.spec. For Debian based distributions, build is orchestrated by the files in directory debian of packages ddcutil_2.1.4-1.debian.tar.xz, etc.