Re: cdbs and Build-Depends-Indep

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 02:11:06PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 13:36, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > Not having the buildd installing tons of unneeded
> > packages reduce build problems and make the logs more readable, 
> 
> Reduce build problems?  How?  As for the "readability" of the

When some build-indep-endencies are not installable on some
architectures, when the postinst script  break, etc... And yes,
it happens.

> logs...well, that's just silly.  They're already many many megabytes.  A
> few more k is not a big deal.

Look at menu and pari buildlog instead of resorting to name calling.

http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=pari&ver=2.1.4-2&arch=alpha&stamp=1036434941&file=log&as=raw

http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=pari&ver=2.1.5-2&arch=alpha&stamp=1049823480&file=log&as=raw

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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