Bug#344538: hppa dependency problems on build of pdns

[Matthijs Mohlmann <matthijs@cacholong.nl>]

Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 02:37:53PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> 
>>Matthijs Mohlmann <matthijs@cacholong.nl> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>I don't know where to send this else, so forgive me if this is the wrong
>>>mailinglist.
> 
> 
>>>See:
>>>http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=pdns&ver=2.9.19-2&arch=hppa&stamp=1135294848&file=log&as=raw
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>>>[..]
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>>[...]
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>>>As you can see, tetex-base depends on tex-common (>= 0.12). But the hppa
>>>build daemon doesn't install tex-common.
> 
> 
>>>So can somebody tell me what's going on here ?
> 
> 
>>The same happened to the planner package, and has been reported as
>>#344538.  It seems that hppa buildd is broken, don't know yet whether
>>the buildd admin (Lamont) or anybody of the debian-admin (responsible
>>for the hardware) is at it.
> 
> 
> Hasn't the problem on the hppa buildd been fixed for a while?  The pdns
> package (both versions 2.9.19-2 and 2.9.19-3) has built fine on that arch
> now.
> 
I haven't fixed anything on this issue, so I'm still wondering why it's
now working in a sudden.

> If the buildd wasn't installing a package that was part of the dependencies,
> then it surely thought for some reason it was already installed.  If this
> wasn't actually the case, it points to a buildd problem or a bug in some
> maintainer script or other; either way, it seems to be corrected now.
> 
The maintainer scripts are not changed as of 2.9.18-3, then it's
actually a buildd problem. If the package was already installed then it
shouldn't fail with a "command not found".

Regards,

Matthijs Mohlmann