[Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#478524: Bug#478524: Problem with autobuild of libtommath/0.39-2

[Roger Leigh]

Joe Nahmias <jello at debian.org> writes:

> Hi Riku,
>
> On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 02:48:53PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote:
>> On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:41:10PM +0000, Joe Nahmias wrote:
>> > On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 11:57:55PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote:
>> > > Lets not complicate this matter with the age-long build/build-arch
>> > > discussion. libtommath needs add the build-dependencies enough to
>> > > to get through debian/rules build for the time being.
>> 
>> > Maybe I'm missing something [...]
>> 
>> Yes. You missed the part where I requested not complicate the issue.
>> dpkg-buildpackage/sbuild will be made better eventually. Will happen
>> faster if someone actually shows a patch that uses build-arch and
>> demonstrates that it will break building of <1% packages. Currently
>> it seems people prefer to just talk about it and hypothise about problems
>> that could potentially materialize in some parallax universe rather than
>> provide patches and testresults of full archive rebuilds.
>
> I agree, it's not complicated -- fix your buildd software (or
> environment, if you pefer) to install B-D-I if you're going to use the
> build target.  It's not a bug in my package if you use faulty
> software/environment in your buildd, that doesn't follow policy's
> requirements for building debian packages, and then the build fails
> because you didn't follow the instructions.

I don't think anyone is claiming your package is buggy.  The problem
is clearly in dpkg-buildpackage.  However, until dpkg-buildpackage is
fixed, it is probably best to add B-D-I to B-D in order to work around
it.


Regards,
Roger

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