Package: gibraltar-bootcd Severity: serious I was just attempting to build gibraltar-bootcd version 0.40 from the source using pbuilder and it failed horribly.
Upon investigation I found that debian/rules is calling two scripts: build-discover (which attempts to download the source for curl, expat and discover) and build-paste (which attempts to grab the source for coreutils). This is total and utter madness, I've never come across anything so odd before in my experience of Debian packaging. You must not assume even the existence of a network connection from a buildd never mind the ability to run apt-get. It must be possible to build a package inside a self-contained chroot. You should also note that there is a high chance that the apt source urls will not be listed in typical chroots. I am absolutely certain that you really do not need to download the source code for each of these packages and then build them. There must be a better way to achieve what you are trying to do here. Stephen Quinney -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.9 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
