Re: Bug#677474: Substvars for Build-Depends in the .dsc file
On 06/14/2012 11:04 AM, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> 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.
Well, debian/control is not modified at build time anymore. It is
created when *you* build the package before uploading it and should not
be modified afterwards.
> 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.)
Not knowing the build-dependencies before building the packjage
sounds... WRONG. Whatever you do to figure them out, please do it before
uploadfing it and trying to do this on a buildd :\
--
Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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