Hi, On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Colin Watson wrote: > Maybe this plan can be rescued, though. Provided that a version of the > package is installed, the control field will be present in the status > file; so, after you install the build-architecture version, > dpkg-checkbuilddeps could look at that and know that it still needs a > host-architecture version. > > Now, this is a bit awkward because you need two passes if you're relying > entirely on dpkg-checkbuilddeps rather than on a higher-level tool that > can inspect the apt cache; but it's only for cross builds, and > dpkg-checkbuilddeps doesn't always print an accurate list of packages to > install in any event (e.g. virtual packages).
In theory virtual packages are preceded by the preferred implementation (real | virtual) and sbuild goes as far as keeping only the first alternative in most of the cases. > I think that the most important part of its contract is still met as > long as it exits zero if and only if all build-dependencies are > satisfied, and it would still be able to do that. > > Does that sound acceptable? To me, yes. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Get the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130119085334.gd19...@x230-buxy.home.ouaza.com