Hi Bernd, Am Donnerstag, den 14.06.2012, 10:32 +0200 schrieb Bernd Zeimetz: > > I would like to see more flexibility in dpkg-source as to where the > > effective build depends come from. My use case are (as you might guess) > > Haskell packages. If you look at > > http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/haskell-yesod/haskell-yesod_1.0.1.6-1.dsc > > you see it has a very long list of build dependencies. If you’d compare > > that to > > http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/yesod/1.0.1.6/yesod.cabal > > you’d see that the process of creating the build dependencies is a > > mostly mechanical process and doing that manually is a waste of human > > developer time and a source for mistakes (which lead to FTBFSes and > > hence more waste in buildd and buildd admin time). > > Other peopel solve this by having a debian/control.in file and having > - a debian/control target in debian/rules > - having the clean target depend on debian/control. > > I don't think that your case is special enough to add yet an extra > option to dpkg-source. I have two packages where I'm changing much more > than the build-dependencies automatically, for example. I am aware of approaches using debian/control.in, but I was under the impression that during the build, debian/control must not be changed and hence this always requires manual interaction. If Updating debian/control in the clean target, this is a large step in the right direction. The only problem I see with this is that if the build dependencies can only be calculated after a full build, building source and binaries requires two builds (and a third one if debuild -tc is used). (Maybe less if debian/rules tracks the dependency of debian/control on *.cabal, but I’m not sure how reliable this is in the when packing and unpacking the sources.) Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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