Hi If this is the case, then I think lintian should be updated to tell people this. It is in fact lintian that have made me do this kind of change for all the Arch: all packages that I maintain.
Please CC me as I'm not on this list anymore if you have comments on my post. Regards, // Ola On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 07:42:42PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Dear fellow developers, > > > Section 7.6[1] is an often misunderstood/forgotten part of the Policy > that explains how Build-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep are used to > build a package. Here is almost a copy&paste: > > The dependencies and conflicts they define must be satisfied > in order to invoke the targets in debian/rules, as follows: > > The Build-Depends and Build-Conflicts fields must be satisfied > when any of the following targets is invoked: > build, clean, binary, binary-arch, build-arch, > build-indep, binary-indep.· > > The Build-Depends-Indep and Build-Conflicts-Indep fields > must be satisfied when any of the following targets is invoked: > build, build-indep, binary and binary-indep. > > > In particular, it means that having cdbs, yada, dbs, dh-make-php and > other packaging helpers that are included from your debian/rules in > B-D-I is wrong, and that having debhelper in B-D-I is wrong as soon as > you use dh_clean in your clean target. > > Such issues generally trigger FTBFSes as soon as the source generates > one arch:any package. Though, as autobuilders do not rebuild source > packages that only build arch:all binary packages, a lot of them are > missed. In fact, it breaks pbuilder[2] and some other autobuilding > tools. > > > I've listed all the packages that list dbs, cdbs, dh-make-php, > debhelper, yada, dpatch or quilt in their Build-Depends-Indep, and ... > 2106 source packages are affected, which rules out any mass bug filing. > I've instead setup a dynamic (regenerated once a day) list of the > packages with this bug on people.d.o[3]. Also note that most of those > problems are already reported by lintian (at least for the usual patch > helpers, debhelper and cdbs). > > Greetings, > > > [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-sourcebinarydeps > > [2] pbuilder asks you to install Build-Depends if you miss them, but do > not ask for B-D-I (and it *is* the right behaviour), and then > builds can fail. > > [3] http://people.debian.org/~madcoder/policy_7.6_violation.txt > > --· > ·O· Pierre Habouzit > ··O [EMAIL PROTECTED] > OOO http://www.madism.org -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | +46 (0)54-10 14 30 +46 (0)70-332 1551 | | http://www.opal.dhs.org UIN/icq: 4912500 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
