On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 04:27:41PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Sa, 26 Sep 2009, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > Build-Depends-Indep: texlive-latex-base, texlive-lang-cyrillic, > > > texlive-latex-recommended, texlive-xetex, cm-super > > > > They do not get installed on the buildds. This is a long standing > > difference between policy and what the tools do. > > Argg&§%$%&%§$&%$&§%&$§§$§$& > > Then I should decide to let it rot and should close this bug, or reassign > it to buildd and not to any package that fails. > > Don't you agree? > > In fact I don't give a sh** about if buildds simply don't do what they > should do. Argggg...... > > Is there a specific reason for that? And don't tell me it cannot be fixed?!
This is nothing specific to the buildds. For instance apt-get build-dep has an --arch-only option, dpkg-buildpackage -B / dpkg-checkbuilddeps -B do not check for Build-Depends-Indep. There is a bug against policy (#374029), and atleast some people think policy is wrong, and there is a bug against dpkg (#229357). If you want your package to get built, I suggest you move your -Indep stuff to the Build-Depends. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
