Bug#458812: Could not build package.

[Alexey Balmashnov <a.balmashnov@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I got sources for aster 9.2.0-3 from http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/aster/

While trying to build a package using pbuilder and sid-chroot
environment I got the following:
...
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: warning: can't parse dependency \
 libscotch-dev
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: error occurred while parsing
Build-Depends/Build-Depends-Indep)
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting.
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: (Use -d flag to override.)
pbuilder: Failed autobuilding of package
...

So, I suspected that the problem is in the dependencies description.
Went to "fix" it by removing
trailing "\" but could not generate source package getting the
following error on debuild -S -sa
command:
...
dh_clean
/usr/bin/make clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/alexei/Desktop/aster/aster-9.2.0'
File not found : /home/alexei/Desktop/aster/aster-9.2.0/bin/as_run
...

IIRC, as_run is in the astk (python-astk-server) package, so shall
aster build-depends on it?

I tried this on Ubuntu 9.04 if it might matter. And it is my first
experience in building packages.

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Further on, continuing topic of Aster/Salome packaging, if I may.
Currently, newer
versions of Code Aster (10.0.3) and Salome platform (5.1.2, Qt4
remake) are available. Having
look at debianization as it is done now, I understand that it is a
hell of a job to package this
pieces of software, especially when there is no (as I understood from
discussion here and
elsewhere) any link with upstream... But hence there is some expertise
around, may people
currently involved in packaging make some overview on what would be good to do
with respect to Aster/Salome build/deployment tools to simplify actual
packaging, and hence
faster deployment of newer versions of the software in the future? May
be there is something
like that already available?

Thanks in advance,
  Alexey Balmashnov