On Do, 2010-08-12 at 11:10 +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> package apt
> found 592628 0.7.26~exp1
> tag 592628 patch experimental
> thanks
>
> Hi Mohamed Amine IL Idrissi,
>
> Am 11. August 2010 17:42:41 UTC+2 schrieb Mohamed Amine IL Idrissi
> <ilidrissiam...@gmail.com>:
> > Package: apt
> > Version: 0.7.26~exp12ubuntu4
> > Severity: serious
> > Tags: upstream
> > Justification: fails to build from source
>
> The justification is a bit strange for serious.
> I mean, APT doesn't fail to build from source,
> it is another package which can't be build from source
> (and only if it has indep build dependencies)
> if you trust that APT downloads all build dependencies…
>
> But okay, i guess many people/applications will depend on it,
> so let us walk the "unfit for release" path. ;)
Normally, the bug should have been reported as important (or normal),
and then increased by maintainer or release manager to serious.
>
> The bug itself is a simple typo, which results in assigning the wrong
> default value for a configuration option (and the wrong value for
> another variable which has no practical effect for now).
> Both are too uncommon so they were unnoticed since 18. Feb…
> (= the very first experimental 0.7.26 version…).
>
> So, nice catch, thanks!
>
> You can work around it in 99,9% of all cases until a fixed APT is
> uploaded by using --no-arch-only as additional commandline switch.
> 0,1% is reserved for packages depending multiarch style on
> package:{any,native} - which isn't official allowed by now.
IIRC, :native is not part of the spec at all, and no one ever talked
about multi-arch in build-depends.
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