[Pkg-scicomp-devel] libmesh/trunk/debian

[Ondrej Certik]

On Dec 15, 2007 4:48 PM, Frank S. Thomas <fst at debian.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 15 December 2007 14:27, Ondrej Certik wrote:
> > On Dec 15, 2007 2:09 PM, Frank S. Thomas <fst at debian.org> wrote:
> > > On Saturday 15 December 2007 13:51, Ondrej Certik wrote:
> > > > +  * Build-depends on g++, so that we build on buildbots
> > >
> > > This is not required, g++ is build-essential and Debian Policy says about
> > > build-essential packages:
> > > [...]
> >
> > I know, but in this case it seems to be needed:
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=455886
>
> I doubt that adding g++ to Build-Depends will change anything. The buildds are
> supposed to have build-essential packages installed by default. Now if sbuild
> tries to build a package it examines the package's Build-Depends and installs
> all the missing dependencies and I don't think that it reinstalls packages
> that are already installed. And if it doesn't reinstall g++, I suppose that
> nothing will change.

Yes, it now fails to build even in pbuilder. So something has changed
in unstable since I asked Christophe for upload couple of weeks ago.
So I'll remove the g++ dependency and I'll try to fix the real
problem.

Ondrej