On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 20:11:24 +0100, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote:

> (a) My debian/rules is a standard debhelper default in this regard.
> 
> (b) Debian policy section 7.7 says:
> 
>       The `Build-Depends-Indep' and `Build-Conflicts-Indep' fields
>       must be satisfied when any of the following targets is
>       invoked: `build', `build-indep', `binary' and `binary-indep'.
> 
>     In other words, "debian/rules build" can expect
>     Build-Depends-Indep to be installed.
> 
Indeed that's what policy says.  But it's also not true (the build-arch
and build-indep targets are optional, so dpkg-buildpackage doesn't use
them).

> I'm willing to fix bugs, but it seems like the buildds are the guilty
> party here!
> 
Or policy and your package are.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=374029

Cheers,
Julien



-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reply via email to