Re: Bug#149486: FTBFS: bad build depends

[David Caldwell <david@porkrind.org>]

Hello, I just received a bug report:

> Package: simpleproxy
> Version: 3.1-1
> Severity: important
>
> This package fails to build from source on the ia64 autobuilder with the
> error:
>
> make: dh_testdir: Command not found
>
> It would appear that you need to add a build dependency on debhelper.  A
> complete build log is available at buildd.debian.org.

I already have this in the control file:
Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 3.0.0)

I have compared this line to other control files on my computer and it 
doesn't look malformed. Can anyone see something wrong? I am still in the 
new maintainer queue so I can't get into an ia64 machine to do any 
firsthand tests, making debugging kind of guesswork.

Looking at the build logs for my other (working) package I see this:
** Using build dependencies supplied by package:
Build-Depends: debhelper, file, flex, libglib1.2-dev, libgtk1.2-dev, 
tcl8.3-dev, texinfo, xlibs-dev

I do not see this in the build logs for simpleproxy, which implies that the 
Build-Depends line is not working correctly.

This is probably something stupid on my part, but I need some more eyes 
looking at it because I just don't see anything... :-)

-David


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