Re: Packages removed from frozen
On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 01:14:02PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>"Rob" == Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> writes:
>
> Rob> Is this really a release-critical bug? It's just the nature of the
> Rob> rscheme package. You can't build rscheme unless rscheme is
> Rob> installed. That will probably be fixed in the future, but at most,
> Rob> I'd think it's wishlist. Further, the message that you get from
> Rob> debian/rules when you try to build without rscheme installed should
> Rob> explain why things failed.
>
> Rob> Granted a Build-Depends would be better, and I'll add that, but I
> Rob> don't see why this is release critical, or why it warrants removal.
> Rob> I'm downgrading this to wishlist, and I think that rscheme should be
> Rob> restored to frozen.
>
> Could one reason be that it can't be built from source? I have
> considered being able to build from sourfe an important feature (I
> really envy the install .src.rpm in a standard place; and rebuild
> as simply as rpm --rebuild feature of rpm)
The problem was not build-depends. The problem was that he had a specific
function being performed *in* debian/rules that checked the build-depends,
and failed to build if they were not met.
This caused problems however. Since he used dpkg --status to check if
rscheme-modules was installed. On my system, in in fact was not installed,
yet his check failed anyway. Why? Because rscheme-modules was not known to
the package system, since it had *never* been built. So, his check is
flawed.
He did add build depends, however he has not removed the flawed checks,
and so it still fails the build unless I manually edit the debian/rules
file. Hence, it is a bug.
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