Re: debian-policy FTBFS due to missing texlive-latex-extra build-dep
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
> I happened to notice recently that debian-policy 3.8.1.0 fails to
> build due to a missing build-dependency on texlive-latex-extra. Since
> it's Architecture: all, of course, it's easy to miss this in Debian,
> but I noticed it in Ubuntu and then verified it in a relatively clean
> Debian chroot:
>
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26062790/buildlog_ubuntu-karmic-i386.debian-policy_3.8.1.0_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz
>
> I've committed a fix to our git repository, of course, but I sort of
> feel that we shouldn't leave this kind of thing lying around for too
> long in debian-policy of all places. :-) Russ and others, would anyone
> mind if I rolled 3.8.2.0 with what we have now? Or does somebody else
> want to, or is there a reason not to do so (e.g. too much
> Standards-Version churn)?
Well, that's unfortunate. I intentionally removed the dependency on
texlive-latex-extra after testing a build with it absent to be sure that
nothing required it because texlive-latex-extra is kind of insane and
makes the package take forever to build since it has to set up a ton of
expensive LaTeX packages.
I wonder what broke about my testing.
I suppose I should have erred on the side of caution rather than trying
to make package builds less annoying. Sorry about that.
I don't mind a release with what we have now. The churn is unfortunate
since there's nothing particularly exciting in the changes committed so
far, but I hate to leave FTBFS bugs lingering for that reason.
I updated the wiki to be more complete about the release steps.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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