As others have said there is no need to compile the source when building a "source as binary" package. Hence there is no need to have depandancies on specific users when building the qmail-src deb from the qmail source deb.
There are two ways of solving this... [1] the same way as pine by only having a source deb in the archive. (The difference here is that we would need to build depend on a trivial package which adds the required users in it's postinst) [2] (and more like the package presently tries) the same way as kernel module packages. Here we tar up a debianised source tree into a binary deb with a postinst that adds the required users. For insperation look at some kernel module source packages... eg: qla2x00 from sarge. From memory a different debian/rules is copied into the debianised source tree which ends up in the "binary" than exists in the "source". Currently the issue seems to be that the qmail source deb really wants to build the qmail deb directly and the qmail-src debv seems to have been hacked in to debian/rules. It also seems that the SAME debian/rules is used BOTH the qmail-src deb and the qmail deb. This is in my opinion asking for trouble. See earlier comment about looking a kernel-module source packages for insparation. I hope this analysis helps!?! Alex Owen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
