python-setuptools is now gone from debian:testing ([1], [2]):
Package python-setuptools is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'python-setuptools' has no installation candidate
This package is entirely optional. Fix the failure by ignoring any failure to
install the package.
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=938168
[2] https://tracker.debian.org/news/1391360/python-setuptools-removed-from-testing/
Apt is run for each package separately and errors are ignored. This is
not great -- it's slow and ignores errors. Therefore we sometimes end
up without packages we need.
Let's tolerate errors only for packages that we are know can fail to
install safely.
This is needed to get "/usr/share/gettext/its/polkit.its",
otherwise msgfmt will fail on Debian:
/usr/bin/msgfmt: cannot locate ITS rules for data/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy.in
Ups, we actually still require libuuid. Actually, we only need to
to build the example script `examples/C/glib/add-connection-gdbus.c`.
The proper solution would be to make this an optional dependency.
So far this was not yet done. Also, libuuid is really an ubiquitous
dependency on Linux, so it's not really a problem to have this build
dependency, even if it's just to build the examples.
This reverts commit c0a3947ff9.
"debian/REQUIRED_PACKAGES" is used by gitlab-ci to prepare the image. We require
"udev" package, if only to install "/usr/share/pkgconfig/udev.pc" to get the
udev directory.
Otherwise build fails with:
Run-time dependency udev found: NO (tried pkgconfig)
meson.build:371:2: ERROR: Dependency "udev" not found, tried pkgconfig
On Ubuntu 16.04 (trusty) valgrind fails due to rdrand being advertised
but not implemented.
Work around that by installing valgrind from Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) via
the "contrib/scripts/nm-ci-install-valgrind-in-ubuntu1604.sh" script.
