development toolbox does not work for Debian packages

[SirH2Os]

Explain what happens

Hello 👋

I am trying to setup a development environment (using distrobox) and I've got some errors that do not let me work with, here is what I've done so far:

ps. following the documentation found here

1. Create the container
   distrobox create -i [ghcr.io/cockpit-project/tasks](http://ghcr.io/cockpit-project/tasks) -n cockpit-dev

2. Enter the container
   distrobox enter cockpit-dev

Where the problem begins:

Executing the tools/make-debs --quick command outputs the following:
CONFIG tmp/build-dist/Makefile GEN cockpit-328.dev25+g132300e09/version.m4 GEN cockpit-328.dev25+g132300e09/tools/debian/copyright GEN cockpit-328.dev25+g132300e09/configure GEN cockpit-328.dev25+g132300e09/src/cockpit/_version.py DIST cockpit-328.dev25+g132300e09.tar.xz dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package cockpit dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 328.dev25+g132300e09-1 dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution UNRELEASED dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Cockpit <[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])> dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64 dpkg-source --before-build . dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: Unmet build dependencies: debhelper-compat (= 13) dh-python gettext (>= 0.21) zlib1g-dev libkrb5-dev (>= 1.11) libxslt1-dev libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.50) libgnutls28-dev (>= 3.4.3) | gnutls-dev libsystemd-dev (>= 235) libpolkit-agent-1-dev libjson-glib-dev libpam0g-dev pkgconf systemd-dev | systemd (<< 253-2~) xsltproc xmlto docbook-xsl glib-networking python3 python3-pip python3-setuptools python3-wheel openssh-client procps python3-pytest-asyncio python3-pytest-timeout dpkg-buildpackage: warning: build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting dpkg-buildpackage: warning: (Use -d flag to override.)

And when I try to execute solely the make command, the following appears:
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

Version of Cockpit

328

Where is the problem in Cockpit?

Unknown or not applicable

Server operating system

Ubuntu

Server operating system version

22.04.1

What browsers are you using?

Firefox, Brave

System log

No response

[martinpitt]

Hello @SirH2Os ! Our "tasks" development container is Fedora based. You cannot build Debian packages in it. You can work on the sources and build them the "upstream" way (./autogen.sh, make, etc., see https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/blob/main/HACKING.md). If you want to build Debian packages, use a Debian tool like schroot or pbuilder, or your host system.

In our CI, we test Debian/Ubuntu by building them in a VM, e.g. test/image-prepare ubuntu-2204 in your case.