On 2009-06-14 11:39:20 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: Hello, > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 03:00:40PM +0200, Michael Bienia wrote: > > trying to build your package on Ubuntu karmic it FTBFS because of a > > missing build-dependency on python. > > What confuses me about this report is that it *does* build on Debian > without using python [1]. The configure script probes for python and > omits some tests if not found. What is different about the Ubuntu > build environment?
Ubuntu has python-minimal marked as Essential, so it's installed everywhere. Therefore the configure scripts detects the python binary, but python-minimal doesn't include all the needed modules for the test suite and a standard python is needed for it. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
