On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 02:28:52PM +0200, Malte Forkel wrote: > an optional patch that I'd like to add to a package requires an > additional build dependency. If I append that dependency to > Build-Depends in debian/control as part of my patch, it is not checked > in time. It seems, the build dependencies are checked (by debuild) or > checked and satisfied (by pdebuild) before the patches are applied. But > if I add the dependency by permanently modifying the control file, it > needs to be fulfilled even when the patch is not used.
Note that sbuild gets the build dependencies from the .dsc /not/ debian/control. Thus if you patch debian/control the correct build-deps will be picked up. Obviously you need to build once with dpkg-buildpackage to generate a correct .dsc after which it should then build correctly with any build tool. I don't know if pbuilder checks the .dsc, but it should do. -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
