On 26/01/09 at 23:08 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Lucas Nussbaum [Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:51:24 +0100]: > > > On 26/01/09 at 19:26 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > > * Lucas Nussbaum [Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:21:54 +0100]: > > > > > It's a chicken-and-egg problem: binary deps are not known until > > > > you build the binary package... > > > > That is simply not true, and not the case with many of our interpreted > > > languages. > > > uh? please explain. > > Ok. You package libfoo-ruby. For version 1.0-1, you write in debian/control: > > Source: ruby-foo > Build-Depends: debhelper, ruby > > Package: libfoo-ruby1.8 > Depends: ruby (>= 1.8), libbar-ruby1.8, libmoo-ruby1.8, libquack-ruby1.8 > > ... > > Now, version 1.5 comes along, and it adds a testsuite, which is run > using the libtest-me-harder-ruby1.8 package. > > So you run the test suite from debian/rules and update debian/control > for 1.5-1 like this: > > Source: ruby-foo > Build-Depends: debhelper, ruby, libtest-me-harder-ruby1.8 > > Package: libfoo-ruby1.8 > Depends: ruby (>= 1.8), libbar-ruby1.8, libmoo-ruby1.8, libquack-ruby1.8 > > ... > > Except that it does not work, because of course the test suite wants to > run the program, which in turns wants to require 'bar', 'moo', and > 'quack'. > > So your debian/control ends ups like: > > Source: ruby-foo > Build-Depends: debhelper, ruby, libtest-me-harder-ruby1.8, > libbar-ruby1.8, libmoo-ruby1.8, libquack-ruby1.8 > > Package: libfoo-ruby1.8 > Depends: ruby (>= 1.8), libbar-ruby1.8, libmoo-ruby1.8, libquack-ruby1.8 > > ...
OK. Your point is: In most cases, the binary stanzas in debian/control will contain the correct set of binary dependencies at the beginning of the build. With which I agree, of course. My point is: There's nothing mandatory about having the binary stanzas in debian/control contain correct information at the beginning of the build. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lu...@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
