On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 04:42:09PM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:

> > Still, the Build-Depends contains things like cli-common-dev (>= 0.4.0)
> > [i386 powerpc amd64 ia64]. Doesn't that result in build failure on other
> > architectures?
> 
>   Shouldn't happen, as you are declaring that build-dependency only on
> those arches, while it won't be tried to be satisfied in other places.

But dh_clideps is part of cli-common-dev, so if this package is built
on, for example, m68k, it will fail when debian/rules tries to run that.
That's why I had this kludge:

> > > - which dh_makeclilibs && dh_makeclilibs -m $(UPVERSION) -l 
> > > $(NEXT_UPVERSION) || true

> > Unfortunately there are no manual pages for dh_makeclilibs,
> > dh_installcligac and dh_clideps. Can you tell me what the -d options
> > does? And is the -p option necessary?
> 
>   -d tries to remove duplicate dependencies.

Why isn't this the default behaviour of those debhelper scripts?

> -p is there to make those
> commands to run only on that package, instead of the whole set. It does
> not have any sense to run it on more packages than that one.

Ok, not _required_ then :)

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
    Guus Sliepen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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