Re: flexbackup 'grave' Bug Resolved

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

"Kurt B. Kaiser" <kbk@shore.net> wrote:

> The QA upload switched from Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends and
> I left that alone.  Maybe both of these (identical) should exist?
> Build-Depends: debhelper is necessary because dh_clean is in the clean
> target, and Build-Depends-Indep might be needed since binary-indep
> calls dh_* commands.  It's not clear to me; enlightenment would be
> appreciated!

Here are a few messages on the matter that I found helpful, and thus
kept for reference. HTH.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2003/debian-policy-200309/msg00067.html

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| Something like...
| 
| `` 'Build-Depends' should contain all packages that are required for a
| 'dpkg-buildpackage -B' run to complete successfully. Any packages
| that are not requird for a 'dpkg-buildpackage -B' run, but that are
| required for a plain 'dpkg-buildpackage' run should be put in
| 'Build-Depends-Indep'. For reference, 'dpkg-buildpackage -B' calls the
| 'foo', 'bar', and 'baz' targets of the 'debian/rules' file, whereas
| 'dpkg-buildpackage' calls the 'foobar', 'quux', and 'quuux' targets.''
| 
| (dpkg-buildpackage's manpage doesn't tell which targets exactly are
| called. If people accept the above, I'll make sure I find out, but I was
| too lazy to read the code right now)
| 
| -- 
| Wouter Verhelst
| Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org
| Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org
| "Stop breathing down my neck." "My breathing is merely a simulation."
| "So is my neck, stop it anyway!"
|   -- Voyager's EMH versus the Prometheus' EMH, stardate 51462.
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http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200310/msg01460.html

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| Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com> wrote:
| > On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 09:51, Adam Conrad wrote:
| [...] 
| >> libtool fails to build from source on all the buildds[1] due to a missing
| >> build-dep on texi2html.
|
| [...]
|
| > My reading of policy suggests that this is correct:
| 
| > ----8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------
| >     `Build-Depends-Indep', `Build-Conflicts-Indep'
| >          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'.
| > 
|
| [Flo] The following footnote is *not* part of the Debian Policy (see
|       above for the footnote mark).
|
| > [1]  If you make "build-arch" or "binary-arch", you need Build-Depends.  If
| >     you make "build-indep" or "binary-indep", you need Build-Depends and
| >     Build-Depends-Indep.  If you make "build" or "binary", you need both.
| > ---->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8--------
| 
| > texinfo and texi2html are used in the "build" target.  As far as I can
| > tell this means that the buildd should be ensuring both Build-Depends
| > and Build-Depends-Indep are installed before running it.
| 
| > Have I read policy wrong, or is policy not entirely in accord with
| > reality?
|
| [...]
| 
| Afaik the latter, the buildds don't build the binary-all target and
| won't install Build-Depends-Indep.
| 
| This works:
| * If your package only builds arch-dependent packages, don't use
|   Build-Depends-Indep
| 
| * If your package only builds binary-all packages, you can choose
|   whether to use Build-Depends-Indep or Build-Depends. However many
|   packages need Build-Dependencies for the clean target (dh_clean), if
|   this applies you must use "Build-Depends".
| 
| * If your package builds both binary-arch and binary-all packages,
|   list anything needed for build, clean, build-arch and binary-arch in
|   "Build-Depends" and anything _additionally_ needed for binary-indep
|   in "Build-Depends-Indep".
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Florent