On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:35:08PM +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 05:15:30PM +0200, Tommi Vainikainen wrote: > > Here is a patch that adds simple check for existance of Sources files > > for each component. > > Thanks, but I for one won't accept that patch in this way. The > sources files are a requirement to fulfill the job of build-rdeps. > If they are not around an error should be triggered. This patch > would simply hide it. > > I could accept one or both of the following solutions: > 1. In the manpage emphasize that the system requires sources files for > each component it checks and that the default is to check the given > common components. > 2. Add a more speaking warning if the required files are not found, > before trying to scan the files.
It's quite common to not have either of contrib or non-free in one's sources.list. I think improving build-rdeps to handle those situations in such a way that it prints an informative message is more useful than the current situation. There's no reason for us to be invoking grep-dctrl when we know, from a simple file existence check, that it will fail. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <james...@debian.org>
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