Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: retitle - 1 please support Build-Depends-Arch On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 03:00:51AM -0700, Daniel Schepler wrote: > root@frobozz:/build/botch-0.17# apt-get build-dep botch=0.17-3 > Reading package lists... Done > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > root@frobozz:/build/botch-0.17# apt-get build-dep /build/botch_0.17-3.dsc > Note, using file '/build/botch_0.17-3.dsc' to get the build dependencies > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > root@frobozz:/build/botch-0.17# apt-get build-dep /build/botch-0.17/ > Note, using directory '/build/botch-0.17/' to get the build dependencies > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > root@frobozz:/build/botch-0.17# dpkg-checkbuilddeps > dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: Unmet build dependencies: cppo > ocaml-findlib libextlib-ocaml-dev libocamlgraph-ocaml-dev > libatdgen-ocaml-dev libxmlm-ocaml-dev libparmap-ocaml-dev > libdose3-ocaml-dev (>= 4.0.1-2) dose-builddebcheck (>= 4.0.1-2) > dose-extra (>= 4.0.1-2) dctrl-tools aspcud python3-apt python3-debian > python3-networkx python3-yaml pep8 pyflakes python3-pydot gsfonts > libgraph-easy-perl The difference is that dpkg supports and documents it (e.g. in deb-src-control(5)), but apt doesn't and e.g. policy doesn't document it. It even goes as far as saying that such a field does not exist [0]. See also #823910. I am going to write a patch for apt later, but I guess that can't be considered a bugfix and hence might not be 1.3 material (depending on how big or not that might turn out to be). Best regards David Kalnischkies [0] file:///usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy-1.html#f55
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