Re: Question about build dependencies.
On 17-Dec-2001 Joey Hess wrote:
> Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>> > Ok. Should this be a lintian check? Test for cvs -d :pserver:...
>> > in the rules file?
>>
>> I can add it if I must. However I would like to trust our developers to not
>> be
>> that silly (-:
>>
>> Besides, it COULD be valid to do a cvs co via another make rule in the rules
>> file, as long as it is not called by dpkg-buildpackage.
>
> Anyway, one can put a cvs checkout in the build rule w/o breaking any
> autobuilders, if you're really careful. base-config has had this for
> ages, without causing any problems:
>
there are always exceptions (-: and at least you handle the case of no cvs
access.
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