Re: doc-debian failed to build

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Thomas Guettler <guettli@interface-business.de> wrote:
>I used: 
>apt-get -b source doc-debian
>to get the newest package (with sources.list pointing deb-src to woody)
>Build failed because there is no debiandoc2html.
>I don't know if this is a bug, because the "binary" of doc-debian
>should not depend on debiandoc2html. Is there something like
>a build-depend?

Yes; look in debian/control in the source tree. doc-debian's is:

  Build-Depends: debiandoc-sgml, tetex-bin, tetex-extra

You're probably missing debiandoc-sgml.

>What I am missing of apt-get is a "install-unstable" function so that
>I can install some packages from unstable while using stable.
>Then I could do something like "apt-get install-unstable doc-debian"
>and I don't have to use ftp myself.

I'm told that apt 0.4.0, currently in CVS, will have this feature:
you'll be able to do things like 'apt-get install doc-debian:unstable'.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]