Hello Steve, thanks for your report. Maybe, you can help me with this bug or should I ask on d-mentors/d-devel?
Steve Langasek schrieb am Fri 18. May, 20:19 (-0700): > reopen 424976 > thanks > > Hi Jörg, > > xindy is still failing to build with the same error as before. ?-) I don't understand this. http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=xindy;ver=2.2%7Ebeta2-2;arch=alpha;stamp=1179510778 ** Using build dependencies supplied by package: Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), dpatch, autotools-dev, flex, clisp-dev Build-Depends-Indep: texlive-latex-base, texlive-lang-cyrillic, texlive-latex-recommended, cm-super Checking for already installed source dependencies... debhelper: already installed (5.0.49 >= 5 is satisfied) dpatch: missing autotools-dev: missing flex: missing clisp-dev: missing Checking for source dependency conflicts... So, it installs only the packages from Build-Depends, but later it calls debian/rules build The Debian policy says in section 7.6. The dependencies and conflicts they define must be satisfied (as defined earlier for binary packages) in order to invoke the targets in `debian/rules', as follows:[1] `Build-Depends-Indep', `Build-Conflicts-Indep' The `Build-Depends-Indep' and `Build-Conflicts-Indep' fields must be satisfied when any of the following targets is invoked: `build', `build-indep', `binary' and `binary-indep'. ^^^^^ So, why the build target is called even though the dependencies from Build-Depends-Indep aren't satisfied? I found this[1] posting from Andreas Metzler where he says: “And my personal opinion in this respect is that a FBTFS bug in a package caused by autobuilders no following policy strictly would be a serious bug. - Policy simply is wrong […]” That's the newest statement I found about build vs. Build-Depends-Indep. Bye, Jörg. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/12/msg01804.html -- Da würde ich auch lieber den Panzerführerschein machen als den MCSE. Bringt mehr, dürfte das gleiche kosten und macht sicher mehr Spaß. Jens Dittmar in de.comp.security
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