Bug#70121: automatic build fails for potato
Most sincere congratulations! You won the price for the most hideous bug
report system!
Had you actually bothered to check with someone like, say, Roman, you might
have found out that all my important and frequently-changing packages already
have Build-Depends. Moreover, whenever I omit something, it is typically
fixed within a day of receipt of a bug report from Roman.
This source package however is a) a rather static which hasn't changed much
over the last few years and b) one that doesn't require anything to build. As
I know full well from having maintained it since, err, 1995.
Think about it: A new upload of mine, with Build-Depends, would only have
created additonal compile-load on the build daemons -- but *without improving
anything* as they can already compile this simple ANSI C package!
Further, I already added all the required content more than seven months ago:
edd@sonny:~/debian/afio-2.4.6/debian> head -6 changelog
afio (2.4.6-2) unstable; urgency=low
* (unreleased)
* debian/control: Added Build-Depends
--
edd@sonny:~/debian/afio-2.4.6/debian> ls -ltr control changelog
-rw-rw-r-- 1 edd edd 765 Jan 8 2000 control
-rw-rw-r-- 1 edd edd 3581 Jan 8 2000 changelog
only now to be forced by this hideous bug report to make the upload which, as
I argued earlier, doesn't actually add anything to measurably improve
quality.
I think you deserve that we reserve the phrase "to do a Goswin" for
undertakings like this one.
Regards, Dirk
"Goswin" == Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
Goswin>
Goswin> Package: afio
Goswin> Version: N/A;
Goswin> Severity: normal
Goswin>
Goswin>
Goswin> *** explain.txt
Goswin> I compiled all packages that have no "Build-Depends" in potato/main/Sources.gz.
Goswin> Your package failed to build together with about 1700 other packages.
Goswin>
Goswin> Since you have no "Build-Depends" you eigther forgot that your package
Goswin> build-depends on something (like debhelper?) or you don't know about
Goswin> build dependencies.
Goswin>
Goswin> The releavnt fields are descibed in:
Goswin> http://www.at.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/packaging.html/ch-relationships.html#s8.7
Goswin>
Goswin> Please add build dependencies to your package or correct what ever else
Goswin> caused the package not to build. If you already did so for woody, please
Goswin> just close this bug report. If your Package is one of the rare cases with
Goswin> a Build-Depends-Indep and I overlooked it, also please just close.
Goswin>
Goswin> May the Source be with you.
Goswin> Goswin
Goswin>
Goswin> The compilation logfiles follows:
Goswin> *** afio/afio.log
Goswin> Reading Package Lists...
Goswin> Building Dependency Tree...
Goswin> Need to get 96.3kB of source archives.
Goswin> Get:1 ftp://alpha potato/main afio 2.4.6-1 (dsc) [607B]
Goswin> Get:2 ftp://alpha potato/main afio 2.4.6-1 (tar) [88.4kB]
Goswin> Get:3 ftp://alpha potato/main afio 2.4.6-1 (diff) [7325B]
Goswin> Fetched 96.3kB in 0s (413kB/s)
Goswin> dpkg-source: extracting afio in afio-2.4.6
Goswin> dpkg-source: extracting afio in afio-2.4.6
Goswin> dpkg-source: extracting afio in afio-2.4.6
Goswin> dpkg-buildpackage: source package is afio
Goswin> dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 2.4.6-1
Goswin> dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
Goswin> debian/rules clean DEB_BUILD_ARCH=i386 DEB_BUILD_GNU_CPU=i386 DEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM=linux DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE=i386-linux DEB_HOST_ARCH=i386 DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU=i386 DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM=linux DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE=i386-linux
Goswin> dh_testdir
Goswin> make: dh_testdir: Command not found
Goswin> make: *** [clean] Error 127
Goswin> Build command 'cd afio-2.4.6 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed.
Goswin> E: Child process failed
Goswin>
Goswin>
Goswin> -- System Information
Goswin> Debian Release: 2.2
Goswin> Architecture: i386
Goswin> Kernel: Linux dual 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i686
Goswin>
Goswin>
Goswin>
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