Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > >> I got an >> error that mx.DateTime can't be imported, so you probably need to >> depend on >> python-egenix-mxdatetime). > > Thanks to Emilio I was able to fix the gnumed-client package which was > in fact > lacking the python-egenix-mxdatetime build dependency. Thinking about > this I > wonder how we could make sure that this kind of problems will be easier > to detect. > Detecting missing Build-Depends is easy if you use pbuilder but > detecting runtime > depends IMHO needs to install a clean chroot or whatever. Wouldn't it > be possible > to parse all import statements in the code and verify that the package > which > provide the imports are listed in the Depends of a package? I have no idea > whather this makes sense or how much effort this takes - just a thought. There is this script[1], it doesn't tell you the binary packages, but feel free to fix that :) This other one[2] tells you binary packages IIRC, but you need to have them installed, so if you're missing a module the script won't tell you about it. Emilio [1] http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/python-modules/tools/find_python_dependencies.py?rev=6993&view=auto [2] http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/python-modules/tools/find_python_dependencies.sh?rev=4666&view=auto
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