tags 600826 + patch
thanks
On 2010-10-20 14:25 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Source: emacs23
> Version: 23.2+1-5
> Severity: serious
> Justification: FTBFS
>
> Hi,
>
> you're build-depending on a virtual package, mailx, which isn't blessed
> by policy. That's not supported by the buildds (#595934), so depending
> on the installed packages in the chroots and on the running version of
> sbuild running, your package may be given back again and again.
This can trivially be avoided by preferring bsd-mailx over mailx as
build dependency. I've attached a diff in case somebody wants to NMU.
Cheers,
Sven
diff -Nru emacs23-23.2+1/debian/changelog emacs23-23.2+1/debian/changelog
--- emacs23-23.2+1/debian/changelog 2010-10-18 07:17:56.000000000 +0200
+++ emacs23-23.2+1/debian/changelog 2010-10-29 11:31:54.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+emacs23 (23.2+1-5.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * Prefer bsd-mailx over mailx as build dependency, since the latter
+ is a pure virtual package (Closes: #600826).
+
+ -- Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:31:54 +0200
+
emacs23 (23.2+1-5) unstable; urgency=low
* Apply upstream patches to prevent the string and unibyte-string
diff -Nru emacs23-23.2+1/debian/control emacs23-23.2+1/debian/control
--- emacs23-23.2+1/debian/control 2010-10-18 07:19:32.000000000 +0200
+++ emacs23-23.2+1/debian/control 2010-10-29 11:36:47.000000000 +0200
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
Section: editors
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Rob Browning <r...@defaultvalue.org>
-Build-Depends: mailx, libncurses5-dev, texinfo, liblockfile-dev, librsvg2-dev,
+Build-Depends: bsd-mailx | mailx, libncurses5-dev, texinfo, liblockfile-dev,
librsvg2-dev,
libgif-dev | libungif4-dev, libtiff4-dev | libtiff-dev, xaw3dg-dev,
libpng12-dev, libjpeg62-dev, libm17n-dev, libotf-dev,
libgpm-dev [!hurd-i386 !kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64], libdbus-1-dev,
diff -Nru emacs23-23.2+1/debian/control.in emacs23-23.2+1/debian/control.in
--- emacs23-23.2+1/debian/control.in 2010-08-14 18:54:18.000000000 +0200
+++ emacs23-23.2+1/debian/control.in 2010-10-29 11:31:38.000000000 +0200
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
Section: editors
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Rob Browning <r...@defaultvalue.org>
-Build-Depends: mailx, libncurses5-dev, texinfo, liblockfile-dev, librsvg2-dev,
+Build-Depends: bsd-mailx | mailx, libncurses5-dev, texinfo, liblockfile-dev,
librsvg2-dev,
libgif-dev | libungif4-dev, libtiff4-dev | libtiff-dev, xaw3dg-dev,
libpng12-dev, libjpeg62-dev, libm17n-dev, libotf-dev,
libgpm-dev [!hurd-i386 !kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64], libdbus-1-dev,
