[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#844267: Bug#844267: sbuild: Support for blhc

[Johannes Schauer]

Hi,

Quoting Paul Wise (2016-11-14 08:42:27)
> On Mon, 2016-11-14 at 08:30 +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> 
> > why do you have to supply the exact version as well?
> 
> Otherwise the wrong package could get installed:

ah, indeed, so it's not just a list of packages.

> > you could do it like sbuild and ... create a dummy binary package
> 
> That is a bit ugly IMO, I would prefer #275379 to get implemented.

How about using equivs, then?

> > Alternatively, sbuild would be happy with parsing the .dsc you already
> > provide and pass the contents of the Build-Depends field to apt.
> 
> That would work for sbuild because build-essential is installed in
> build chroots, but not for cats more generally.

No, it would work for sbuild because sbuild knows how to parse a .dsc and turn
that into a binary package. In this case: into a binary package without
build-essential.

Thanks!

cheers, josch
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