Bug#366275: xbase-clients: Missing build dependency
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 12:12:13PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> reopen 366275
> retitle 366275 don't take b-d recommendations from random submitters without checking them!
> submitter 366275 !
> severity 366275 important
> quit
>
> * Add xprint-utils to build-depends. Thanks anonymous someone.
> (closes: #366275)
>
> This was a wrong fix. The xprint-utils package does not contain any .pc
> files, so it cannot possibly be relevant for the build failure shown; and
> xprint-utils is not yet built on all architectures, which means that this
> build-dep is now causing xbase-clients to FTBFS on release architectures
> where it previously had no such problem.
>
> The proper package to build-depend on is libxprintutil-dev. The
> xprint-utils package you now build-depend on does *not* pull in
> libxprintutil-dev as a dependency, which means the status of xbase-clients
> wrt xprintutils.pc has *not* changed. Since both xbase-clients 1:7.0.1-1
> and 1:7.0.1-2 built fine on the autobuilders (build-depends allowing!), this
> bug does not exist, and the original submitter, in addition to having
> stupidly misconfigured his email, has also stupidly misconfigured his build
> environment.
>
> Don't commit random and untested changes to debian/control on the say-so of
> anonymous bug-submitting idiots!
>
> The proper fix here is to pass --disable-xprint to the configure script for
> xbdebizzy, so that the package neither fails to build nor builds with
> different dependencies in the presence of libxp-dev.
This is odd. When I did a build in pbuilder, the build did indeed fail and
then when I added xprint-utils to the build-depends, the build succeeded.
This wasn't untested by any means and I didn't just put it in there for the
hell of it. I don't know what changed, but at this point I really don't
care enough to investigate. Anyway, I'll apply your fix.
- David Nusinow
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