Bug#746412: apt-get source linux behaves weird

[Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhalpun@googlemail.com>]

On 29.11.2015 14:41, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 03:17:47AM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
>> One has to do:
>> $ cd test/interactive-helper
>> $ make aptwebserver
> 
> A simple 'make' in the top-level directory builds this webserver

Indeed, but somehow 'debian/rules build-arch' doesn't.

>> How sane can a framework be if it has to generate packages that are "used
>> only by testcases and surf [...]", even though there are no waves? ;)
> 
> You have never seen apt fail bigtime then.
> That generates lots of waves… ;)

I'm glad I haven't. ;)

> And as a testrun doesn't show regressions… applied & pushed to git.

Thanks.

> Should be part of the next upload, which might or might not be soon
> depending on how many RCs people find now to block our transition after
> they had months in experimental to do it. ;)

Apparently somebody found something...

> Thanks for working on this!

Thank you for apt 1.1, I like it. :-)

Best regards,
Andreas