On Sun, Dec 01, 2024 at 10:13:30PM -0700, Antonio Russo wrote: > I (as upstream) have ported my kcollectd package to Qt6 and KF6, and I'm able > to build > and run it just fine using the Debian build chain. Now I (wearing my Debian > hat) am > having trouble getting it to build as a .deb. > > The first problem I ran into is that I'm doing the build inside an > autopkgtest sid > virtual machine, started by sbuild on a bookworm server. The dh_clean target > fails > (on the bookworm host) because I'm using `--with kf6`. I seem to have been > able to > get around that by just installing pkg-kde-tools from unstable on bookworm (I > know). > But it didn't pull in anything else, and the dh_clean target completed fine > afterwards. > > So, that's my first question: can I build packages using newer dh sequences > on an > older build server, or does the build server need to also be unstable to use > that > dh sequence?
You only need deps installed if you need to run clean. Nowadays, with git and clean working copies you normally can skip running clean, by passing --no-clean-source to sbuild or with something equivalent. -- WBR, wRAR
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