+++ Christoph Egger [2012-03-13 15:46 +0100]:
> Package: src:therion
> Version: 5.3.9-2
> Severity: serious
> Tags: sid wheezy
> Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
>
> Hi!
>
> Your package failed to build on the buildds:
>
> make -C ./thbook
> make[2]: pdftex: Command not found
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 127
>
> Full build log at
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=therion&arch=kfreebsd-amd64&ver=5.3.9-2&stamp=1331568497
>
> latex* in build-depends-indep but used on a arch build?
Hmmm. This is my first conversion of a non-trivial package to separate
out Build-Depends-Indep and build-arch, build-indep. It seemed to work
locally when I tried both sorts of build in pbuilder.
So I'm not quite sure what I've done wrong here.
The autobuilder only install the Build-Depends stuff, but then appears
to call the 'build' target which depends on both build-arch and
build-indep. SO all the build-arch stuff build OK but then the
build-indep part fails alomst immediately due to not having latex
(pdflatex) installed.
If the autobuilder only called build-arch then it looks like it should
work OK, or if it also installed the Build-Depends-Indep packages it
would work OK, but what currently seems to be happeneding seems
guaranteed to fail in package that implements this separated-target
stuff.
Therefore I presume I have misunderstood something. Should I stop
providing a 'build' target?
I currently have:
build: build-arch build-indep
build-indep:
generate latex for doc package
touch build-indep-stamp
build-arch:
compile binary
touch build-arch-stamp
binary-indep: build-indep-stamp
install doc package files
binary-arch: build-arch-stamp
install binary package files
So is that wrong? I made this change because I saw mail asking that
people prepare their packages for this transition. This seems to be
difficult to do in practice at the moment.
I could make 'build' only depend on build-arch, but that's
inconvenient for local builds. Maybe it OK as a work-around? I assume
someone has a plan?
Asking around it seems like the autobuilder is still calling 'build'
even though it only installs 'Build-Depends'. It seems that what is
needed is dpkg 1.16.2 or later in order to have build-indep called
automatically in preference when present. So I'll add a dependency on
that and re-upload.
Wookey
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