Quoting IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian GNU|Linux) (2021-10-22 09:36:51)
> On 10/22/21 9:30 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian GNU|Linux) wrote:
> >
> > as to the question asked on #debian-ci ("do you happen to know why
> > salsa-ci uses mk-build-deps instead of say apt-get build-dep ./?":
> > i also have no clue (and just took what was already there).
> >
> > looking at the script that invokes it, i *think* the reason is that we
> > can use 'aptitude' (with a number of scoring-options set) as the
> > resolver for installing the build-dependencies, something we couldn't do
> > with a plain 'apt-get' (as it lacks support for the scoring-options)
>
> so i did a bit of code archeology (complicated by the fact that
> repositories were merged without preserving history), and here's what i
> found
>
> <https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/images/-/commit/6a32d2d7b90abb70627edf12424ac6fc6ba76afd>
>
> somebody who knows more about how the canonical builders (that is:
> "buildd") resolve depdendencies is required to solve this.
with the help of IOhannes I filed this MR on salsa that fixes the issue:
https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline/-/merge_requests/314
With that fix applied, gammu's cross-build job now succeeds on salsa:
https://salsa.debian.org/josch/gammu/-/pipelines/313588
Thanks!
cheers, joschAttachment:
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