Re: Bug#301839: freebsd5-buildutils: can't fulfill the build dependencies in sarge

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 04:37:41PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Robert Millan (rmh@debian.org) [050329 16:35]:
> > On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 08:32:48PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > Package: freebsd5-buildutils
> > > Version: 5.3+2-2
> > > Severity: serious
> > > Tags: sarge
> > > 
> > > 
> > > The build dependency on type-handling (>= 0.2.5) can't
> > > be fulfilled in sarge.
> 
> > So why did it migrate to sarge in first place?
> 
> Because for sanity reasons, build-dependencies are not automatically
> checked. If you want to keep your package out of testing, you need to
> create an RC-bug for it.

If testing should make any sense, handling build dependencies as 
dependencies in the testing scripts was required.

You want to offer security support for testing (which is AFAIK the 
reason why the sarge release is stalled since 7 months) but don't want 
to ensure that the build dependencies are fulfillable?

> Cheers,
> Andi

cu
Adrian

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