[Fwd: Bug#446318: [debuild]: advice on missing build-deps is dangerous !]
Adam D. Barratt
adam at adam-barratt.org.uk
Sat Nov 1 16:30:02 UTC 2008
Hi,
debuild currently has an open bug report requesting that we no longer
suggest using pbuilder-satisfydepends as a method of installing
build-dependencies and I was wondering whether the pbuilder team had any
thoughts or comments on the issue.
I've included the text of the original report below for reference.
Regards,
Adam
-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Vincent Fourmond <fourmond at debian.org>
Reply-To: Vincent Fourmond <fourmond at debian.org>, 446318 at bugs.debian.org
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
Subject: Bug#446318: [debuild]: advice on missing build-deps is
dangerous !
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:40:13 +0200
Package: devscripts
Version: 2.10.9
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Hello,
I've just stumbled upon bug #446298, and it appears that debuild is
advising to run /usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends as root:
If you have the pbuilder package installed you can run
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends as root to install the
required packages, or you can do it manually using dpkg or apt using
the error messages just above this message.
This is very dangerous ! The results can be disastrous ! That bit of
advice should be removed. /usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends
is a /usr/lib script, and as such can change its behavior without
notice and need not be documented. Don't mention it. Don't rely on it.
Regards,
Vincent
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii debianutils 2.25.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.7 package building tools for Debian
ii libc6 2.6.1-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii perl 5.8.8-11 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii sed 4.1.5-4 The GNU sed stream editor
Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii fakeroot 1.8.1 Gives a fake root environment
-- no debconf information
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