[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#602571: Bug#602571: Bug#602571: cannot build due to ESSENTIAL dep phase

[Roger Leigh]

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 04:41:29PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > The main question that needs answering is:
> > Are all the packages listed in
> > /usr/share/doc/build-essential/essential-packages-list and
> > /usr/share/doc/build-essential/list
> > available and installable?
> 
>  The error message is more confusing than the original one since the
>  mention of ESSENTIAL as a separate step was bit more explicit; I
>  suspect the change is not related to your patch though, but rather to
>  other sbuild updates.

We should probably do one or both of

- making the error messages much more explicit about what went wrong
- separating the essential and package build deps.

The essential and package deps were merged since they can all be
installed in a single apt-get/aptitude run, which is more efficient
and lets the resolver make a more informed decision based on what
the final outcome should be.

>  I'm not familiar with sbuild, but from reading sbuild-vpkg.patch it
>  seemed entirely appropriate, but since I can't confirm it fixes
>  anything, I don't know whether you want to include it or not.
> 
>  It seems this bug can be closed since it's a problem in Ubuntu's
>  build-essential, I'm leaving it open in case you'd like to merge
>  sbuild-vpkg.patch.

I've now applied the patch.  It does make sense to do this, but it
doesn't make the diagnostics better when things go wrong.  It's
only activated when $resolve_virtual is enabled, so by default it
won't attempt to find virtual packages.


Regards,
Roger

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