Re: FTFBS in sarge

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Jens Schmalzing <j.s@lmu.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Colin Watson writes:
>
>> > Both packages build nicely with `dpkg-buildpackage -b' on any arch.
>> > However, sbuild is using `dpkg-buildpackage -B', which of course
>> > doesn't work, [...]
>
>> Do you really think it's a good idea for sbuild to use
>> 'dpkg-buildpackage -b'?
>
> I think it's a good idea for sbuild to have a look in the control file
> and just go home for the rest of the day if it sees it won't be
> building anything anyway.  That would prevent downloading and
> installing the build-time dependencies, which is a huge waste of
> bandwidth and disk space for some packages, including the kernel-patch
> and kernel-image packages.  Also, that would save the buildd operator
> from having a failed build show up in the logs.

That is suposed to be already done through the arch excludes. No point
downloading, unpacking and analysing the source of such packages.

> Regards, Jens.

MfG
        Goswin