Re: How to do a test sbuild with additional package, not in the repositories?

[Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu>]

Paul Elliott <pelliott@blackpatchpanel.com> writes:

> I must prepare a new version of my package because of a transition.
>
> however they are holding one package that my package depends on, out
> of unstable because "that would start the transition". The package is
> libwxsqlite3-3.0-dev
>
> I want to be one jump ahead of them when they do do the transition.
>
> I have grabed the source from experimental built it under unstable,
> and used it to test build my package with debuild.
>
> However I want to test build my package with sbuild. Sometimes debuild
> succeeds when it should not, because my test system has some unlisted
> dependancy.
>
> How do I get the one package that is not in unstable
> (libwxsqlite3-3.0-dev) into sbuild's list of packages for a 
> test build?

Check out https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=700522
I'm using gthomas' extra-package branch for quite some time with
success.
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Regards,
Feri.