On Mon, 30 May 2005, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > On 30 May 2005 at 14:20, Steve Langasek wrote: > | It would probably be better if r-base-dev simply specified "awk", > | which IIRC is "virtually-essential" by virtue of being a > | dependency of an essential package. > > I like that much better. So now the changelog stands at > > * debian/rules: configure call with AWK="/usr/bin/awk"
This is fine. > * debian/control: Build-Depends on mawk | gawk | awk > * debian/control: Depends for r-base-core on 'mawk | gawk | awk' But this is not. Please don't do that. As it has been already pointed out, awk is essential, so any dependency or build-dependency on 'mawk | gawk | awk' is completely gratuitous. > | In any case, I've tagged this sarge-ignore because being > | virtually-essential, mawk is available on all Debian buildds -- accounting > | for the lack of *actual* build failures on archs other than amd64. For the record, the reason I am reading the logs for this bug is that this package failed to build from source on kfreebsd-i386 last time I tried: mawk -f convert.awk < world.line > world2.line /bin/sh: mawk: command not found I would call this an actual build failure. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
