On 10/25/2011 03:15 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
On Aug 26, 2011, at 10:32 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
It should now be possible to use xz compression for .deb packages
uploaded to Ubuntu oneiric (using 'dh_builddeb -- -Zxz'). In order to
do so, you must include this field in the relevant binary
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 04:15:06PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
However, when the buildd got to that point, it failed:
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/83677349/buildlog_ubuntu-precise-amd64.m2crypto_0.21.1-2ubuntu1_BUILDING.txt.gz
I think you probably mean this error:
Thanks Micah and Steve for the great explanations.
On Oct 25, 2011, at 03:18 PM, Micah Gersten wrote:
It's a check on upload and not during the build would be my guess.
Maybe we should add a lintian warning/error if it uses .xz debs w/out
the pre-depends.
I think that could help, but it's also
Hi Barry (2011.10.25_22:45:23_+0200)
But this makes me think of another question: why didn't the Debian package
have that same Pre-Depends. Extrapolating from Steve's explanation, my guess
is that they don't have the same distro-version restriction setup that we do
(i.e. outside the chroot).
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 04:45:23PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
But this makes me think of another question: why didn't the Debian package
have that same Pre-Depends. Extrapolating from Steve's explanation, my
guess is that they don't have the same distro-version restriction setup
that we do
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Micah Gersten mic...@ubuntu.com wrote:
It's a check on upload and not during the build would be my guess. Maybe we
should add a lintian warning/error if it uses .xz debs w/out the
Speaking of Lintian warnings, would it make sense to have lintian
duplicate the
It should now be possible to use xz compression for .deb packages
uploaded to Ubuntu oneiric (using 'dh_builddeb -- -Zxz'). In order to
do so, you must include this field in the relevant binary packages:
Pre-Depends: dpkg (= 1.15.6)
(This implies that such packages can only be uploaded to
