Bug#539051: xserver-xorg-video-nv: FTBFS: Missing Build-Depends

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Daniel Schepler wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-nv
> Version: 1:2.1.14-1
> Severity: serious
>
> From my pbuilder build log:
>
> ...
>   
>> stampdir/genscripts
>> stampdir/prepare
>>     
> if ! [ `which quilt` ]; then \
>                 echo "Couldn't find quilt. Please install it or add it to the build-depends for this package."; \
>                 exit 1; \
>         fi; \
>         if QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches quilt --quiltrc /dev/null next >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
>           echo -n "Applying patches..."; \
>           if QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches quilt --quiltrc /dev/null push -a -v >stampdir/log/patch 2>&1; then \
>             cat stampdir/log/patch; \
>             echo "successful."; \
>           else \
>             cat stampdir/log/patch; \
>             echo "failed! (check stampdir/log/patch for details)"; \
>             exit 1; \
>           fi; \
>         else \
>           echo "No patches to apply"; \
>         fi; \
>         >stampdir/patch
> Couldn't find quilt. Please install it or add it to the build-depends for this package.
> make: *** [stampdir/patch] Error 1
> dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
>
> (Also, when I built it with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="parallel=3", the build process
> went ahead and ran autoreconf even though the patch had failed.  That to
> me indicates that there's a missing dependency somewhere which could result
> in autoreconf being run on the unpatched code before the patching is done.)
>   

The problem is likely that the patching has been wrongly removed: the
build target still depend on patch while there shouldn't be any patch
rule in there... I'll look at it.

Brice