On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 21:26 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Fri, Jan 12, 2007, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > No. You are making all kinds of assumptions, and just guessing, I > > think. The debian/rules file explicitly uses guile-1.6 unconditionally. > > If that isn't working for some reason, then the problem must be tracked > > down, I agree, but it does not follow that a build-conflict is the right > > solution. In fact, it is certainly the wrong solution. > > If the submitter has a normal system where he installed whatever he > wanted from Debian and apt-get source + apt-get build-dep + > dpkg-check-builddeps && debuild fails to build, the build-deps or > build-conflicts are incorrect. I'm not making assumptions nor > guessing, I'm stating policy which is that if the build-depends and > build-conflicts are satisfied, the package must build...
If the package does not build properly on a normal system, under the circumstances you describe, that means there is a bug. It does not mean that the correct fix for the bug is to change the build-depends or the build-conflicts. Thomas
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