Re: Help needed with FTBFS bug 267413 - buildd problem?

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi <gcs@lsc.hu> schrieb:

> Warning: I am not a DD yet, I may be wrong!
>
> * Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> [2004-08-23 17:45:15 +0200]:
>
>> Is it possible that a buildd keeps debconf information of uninstalled
>> build-dependencies?
>  I do not think so. See any build log, how the buildd's finish their
> job:
> /usr/bin/sudo dpkg --root=/home/buildd/build/chroot-unstable --purge m4 bison html2text [...]
>                                                                ^^^^^
> As I know, purge removes everything; package, configuration files and
> debconf data as well.

This is how it should be, I was rather suspecting a bug. But I was
stupid, everything is okay: I had a closer look at the install messages
of tetex-bin in the failed buildd logs, and I can see that the debconf
answers are as they should be.

>> - Is there any way to have one of the failing buildds execute
>>   "debiandoc2ps -v some.sgml" without uploading a package just for that? 
>  Ask any buildd admin, lurk on www.buildd.net ; maybe Martin Loschwitz
> <madkiss@debian.org> can help you. He is also German AFAIK, and
> responsive.

Thanks very much, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie