On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 02:45:40PM -0400, James Vega wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 11:08:12AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> > it also has the side-effect of bloating pbuilder environments, which
> > kind of defeats the purpose of pbuilder, as it will be harder to track
> > down missing build-dependencies. i haven't verified if fresh pbuilder
> > installs include devscripts or not.
> 
> devscripts is in no way automatically installed by pbuilder, so this has
> no effect on that ... ooh, just noticed that 93 packages Build-Depend on
> devscripts.  buildds don't install Recommends by default though, so this
> still doesn't affect pbuilder, sbuild, et.al.

well, to say it is "in no way automatically installed" seems directly
contradictory to my experiences...

i first noticed this issue while upgrading a pbuilder/cowbuilder
environment, initially installed sometime in the last 6-9 months, and
upgraded daily since then, nothing was ever installed manually, and it
had devscripts installed. in several other similarly maintained pbuilder
environments devscripts was installed as well.

it appears fresh pbuilder installs don't install devscripts, having just
finished one. so that issue is moot, and people who have old pbuilder
environments just need to re-install cleanly or reconfigure them or
whatever suits their fancy.

live well,
  vagrant




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