Source: bsdmainutils Version: 9.0.6 Tags: patch User: helm...@debian.org Usertags: rebootstrap
Dear bsdmainutils maintainers, While trying to cross build bsdmainutils, I noticed that it was installing the host architecture python and python-hdate. It then tries to execute that Python as a build tool, which fails, because the host architecture is usually not executable during cross compilation. Since python and python-hdate are only used as build tools, the correct solution is to always install them for the build architecture. This can be reflected in the Build-Depends by annotating those packages with ":native". The attached patch implements that proposal. Please consider applying it. The ":native" is supported in apt and dpkg since wheezy. If in doubt, don't hesitate to ask for details on the identified problem or the proposed solution. As an aside note, I question the use of python-hdate to compute the Jewish calendar: * Since the build date is used to select the year of the calendar file, the package is not reproducible. (Ccing the reproducible people) * The last build happened in 2014, so the installed calendar is no longer useful for day to day use (neither in stable nor in unstable). Helmut
diff -Nru bsdmainutils-9.0.6/debian/changelog bsdmainutils-9.0.6+nmu1/debian/changelog --- bsdmainutils-9.0.6/debian/changelog 2014-10-17 15:42:56.000000000 +0200 +++ bsdmainutils-9.0.6+nmu1/debian/changelog 2015-07-19 15:37:08.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +bsdmainutils (9.0.6+nmu1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Add :native annotationes to Python-related Build-Depends to facilitate + cross dependency satisfiability (Closes: #-1) + + -- Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de> Sun, 19 Jul 2015 15:36:38 +0200 + bsdmainutils (9.0.6) unstable; urgency=medium * Add Ubuntu 13.04 release date to calendar.ubuntu. diff -Nru bsdmainutils-9.0.6/debian/control bsdmainutils-9.0.6+nmu1/debian/control --- bsdmainutils-9.0.6/debian/control 2014-08-15 11:49:55.000000000 +0200 +++ bsdmainutils-9.0.6+nmu1/debian/control 2015-07-19 15:36:33.000000000 +0200 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Priority: important Maintainer: Debian Bsdmainutils Team <pkg-bsdmainut...@teams.debian.net> Uploaders: Giacomo Catenazzi <c...@debian.org>, Michael Meskes <mes...@debian.org> -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), libncurses5-dev, quilt (>= 0.40), python, python-hdate +Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), libncurses5-dev, quilt (>= 0.40), python:native, python-hdate:native Standards-Version: 3.9.5 Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/bsdmainutils/bsdmainutils.git Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=bsdmainutils/bsdmainutils.git
