Joe Nahmias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Riku, > > On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 02:48:53PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: >> On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:41:10PM +0000, Joe Nahmias wrote: >> > On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 11:57:55PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: >> > > Lets not complicate this matter with the age-long build/build-arch >> > > discussion. libtommath needs add the build-dependencies enough to >> > > to get through debian/rules build for the time being. >> >> > Maybe I'm missing something [...] >> >> Yes. You missed the part where I requested not complicate the issue. >> dpkg-buildpackage/sbuild will be made better eventually. Will happen >> faster if someone actually shows a patch that uses build-arch and >> demonstrates that it will break building of <1% packages. Currently >> it seems people prefer to just talk about it and hypothise about problems >> that could potentially materialize in some parallax universe rather than >> provide patches and testresults of full archive rebuilds. > > I agree, it's not complicated -- fix your buildd software (or > environment, if you pefer) to install B-D-I if you're going to use the > build target. It's not a bug in my package if you use faulty > software/environment in your buildd, that doesn't follow policy's > requirements for building debian packages, and then the build fails > because you didn't follow the instructions.
I don't think anyone is claiming your package is buggy. The problem is clearly in dpkg-buildpackage. However, until dpkg-buildpackage is fixed, it is probably best to add B-D-I to B-D in order to work around it. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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