request: check installability of Depends before building
Hello,
Currently, we have that packages don't build if any build-dependencies
are not installable. I'd like to suggest that we do the same for
run-time dependencies.
What ends up happening is that the package itself may build, but then it
never migrates to testing because it's not installable on some of the
architectures that it built on due to some run-time dependency being
missing.
Examples of this that I know of offhand are canu (due to its indirect
dependency on libssw via mhap) and sga.
If you look at d/control for sga, it looks like this:
~~~https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-med/sga.git/tree/debian/control
Priority: optional
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10),
dh-autoreconf,
libsparsehash-dev,
zlib1g-dev | libz-dev,
libbamtools-dev,
gawk,
help2man,
# Run-Time Depends
# (to prevent building on architectures where it won't be installable)
samtools,
python,
python-ruffus,
python-pysam
Standards-Version: 4.1.0
~~~
...which is an abuse of the build-depends field since those at the
bottom are not actually needed for building the package.
Many thanks for your consideration and all that you do.
regards
Afif
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Afif Elghraoui | عفيف الغراوي
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