Re: Test suites after build and Build-Depends.
On 26/01/09 at 19:26 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> * Lucas Nussbaum [Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:21:54 +0100]:
>
> > It's a chicken-and-egg problem: binary deps are not known until
> > you build the binary package...
>
> That is simply not true, and not the case with many of our interpreted
> languages.
uh? please explain.
The Depends: could be created/modified during the build (see packages
using control.in for example).
If you want to parse the binary stanzas in debian/control to determine
the depends before building, then it's a fragile approach.
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