[Debian-hebrew-common] [Fwd: Re: FTWCA Policy Section 7.6 (Build-Depends/Build-Depends-Indep)]

[Lior Kaplan]

FYI.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: FTWCA Policy Section 7.6 (Build-Depends/Build-Depends-Indep)
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:08:21 +0300
From: Lior Kaplan <kaplan at debian.org>
To: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder at debian.org>
References: <200606151942.45212.madcoder at debian.org>

Thanks.

I've uploaded fixed versions of my packages in the list bellow.

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                                                madcoder at debian.org
> OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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Lior Kaplan
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