John Paul Adrian Glaubitz dixit: >I have had many packages where I had to install >certain debhelper packages on the host system outside the chroot before >I was able to build the package. This doesn't look like a very clean >solution to me.
It’s the Debian way to do things. Yves-Alexis Perez dixit: >Having to manually build the source package before is pretty painful, Yes, but… see above. However, I can see how we could work around this: tell pbuilder (and cowbuilder) that a directory argument is okay as well, then let them, in those cases, gather the information they normally get from the .dsc from $1/debian/control. When I’m bored (or get sufficient incentive to do it), and if one of you is doing the NMU (or the maintainer wakes up), I might even hack this; I roughly understand how pbuilder works, and how this could work. I agree it’s a nice-to-have thing, I just accept this isn’t how this has traditionally worked in Debian. bye, //mirabilos -- Solange man keine schmutzigen Tricks macht, und ich meine *wirklich* schmutzige Tricks, wie bei einer doppelt verketteten Liste beide Pointer XORen und in nur einem Word speichern, funktioniert Boehm ganz hervorragend. -- Andreas Bogk über boehm-gc in d.a.s.r -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
