Hi, On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 08:50:25AM -0800, Daniel Schepler wrote:
> I've been running a manual test bootstrap of Debian (starting with > cross-compiled packages amd64 -> i386 up to the point I was able to > install debhelper), and posting a few bugs I've found along the way. > These are where I found that having extra packages installed during > the dpkg-buildpackage run either failed or resulted in broken > packages. (Some examples of the type of thing I mean: #948522, > #887902.) I would expect a sensible package build to not depend on package relationships that aren't declared, in either way, but things in /usr/local are outside the control of the package system. So a package that enables an optional feature if a particular other package is installed, but there is neither a build dependency nor a build conflict declared is a bug to me. The Build-Conflicts should still be avoided, by an explicit configure option "disable this feature". Simon
