Bug#635696: pbuilder-satisfydepends ignores last line of the .dsc

Ian Jackson ijackson at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Tue Aug 9 12:32:09 UTC 2011


Junichi Uekawa writes ("Re: Bug#635696: pbuilder-satisfydepends ignores last line of the .dsc"):
> This script is mostly unmaintainable due to my fault.  bash and sed
> isn't the right language for this kind of processing.

I don't have an opinion about the choice of language :-).

I like to write to the pbuilder interface because (a) it has a number
of different implementations with the same interface (b) it's actually
being used by deployed autobuilder tools like pbuilder, so there is
some chance of it doing the same thing.

> I am hoping that pbuilder-satisfydepends-aptitude is a more suitable
> replacement, and there should be an even better replacement.

I can't remember why I used -classic, I'm afraid.  There was a reason...

Ian.





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