On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 04:34:08AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > Well that patch has not been in a mergeable state since then, so > consequently it did not get applied.
It would have been nice to have a comment stating this to the bug report to avoid more time to be wasted. > The root issue here is that to perform the task the bug reporter is > requesting from dpkg-checkbuilddeps, the program would need access to > whatever frontend database is being used, something dpkg-dev cannot > know or assume. Why? > Blindly outputting version-less package entries that might or might > not be able to satisfy the dependencies anyway, seems very > suboptimal, and currently one is best served by one of the frontend > aware alternatives. Which ones? Currently, I use cut&paste and manual delete from dpkg-checkbuilddev's output, a process I have become accustomed to in the last nine and a half years since this bug was filed. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 31958061 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 31958062 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
