Hello, I would like to submit to the list a problem I encounter when I create packages of emacs-snapshot (from http://emacs.naquadash.org by Julien Danjou) on Debian squeeze (powerpc) with pbuilder.
After editing /etc/apt/sources.list with the right deb-src (stable), I used apt-get source emacs-snapshot to get the debian sources. My /etc/pbuilderrc look like this: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- MIRRORSITE=http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ DISTRIBUTION=squeeze COMPONENTS="main contrib non-free" --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- In the sources folder (emacs-snapshot-20120502/) I used, as it is described in the Debian New Maintener's Guide, pdebuild with AUTO_DEBSIGN=no (I'm not signing packages because it's just for testing purpose right now): --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ AUTO_DEBSIGN=no sudo pdebuild dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libncurses5-dev liblockfile-dev libgif-dev libtiff-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg-dev | libjpeg62-dev | libjpeg8-dev libgtk-3-dev | libgtk2.0-dev quilt (>= 0.42) libasound2-dev libselinux1-dev librsvg2-dev lsb-release libm17n-dev libotf-dev libdbus-1-dev libgpm-dev libmagickwand-dev libxml2-dev libgnutls-dev autoconf (>= 2.65) automake (>= 1.11) (...) dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture powerpc dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libasound2-dev libselinux1-dev libgpm-dev dpkg-buildpackage: warning: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting. dpkg-buildpackage: warning: (Use -d flag to override.) E: Failed autobuilding of package --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- So I have a problem with libasound2-dev, libselinux1-dev and libgpm-dev. In debian/control I found that those three packages in Build-Depends have the tag [linux-any]. (You can see the full debian/control and the pdebuild log here: http://porneia.free.fr/tmp/emacs-snapshot-pdebuild.log). Julien Danjou told me that the tag is only here to bypass those depends on Debian kFreeBSD or Hurd kernels. And, as you know, [linux-any] is described in Debian Policy Chapter 7.1 "Syntax of relationship fields" with the example "foo [linux-any]" which "is equivalent to foo on architectures using the Linux kernel and any cpu". So obviously, this tag on these three packages shouldn't be a problem on my box running Linux 2.6.32-5-powerpc, right? I thought my problem was from my configuration of pbuilder, but I didn't find anything usefull in /usr/share/pbuilder/pbuilderrc nor in the manual regarding my issue. So, the only solution I found to actually build the packages were to suppress all three " [linux-any]" occurrences in debian/control. And it worked! I got all my packages and I was able to install emacs-snapshot on my box with the debs I just created. But I *know* that I'm not supposed to edit debian/control to build the packages in order to send them to Julien Danjou for the repository. Not to mention that everything looks good in the debian/control, even to compile the packages under powerpc... As you understood I'm a total newbie in Debian packages creation but I don't get where I'm wrong and what I haven't done to make it work properly from the beginning. Can someone have an idea please? Thank you very much by advance, regards. e- -- ~ #ID: e20100633 <e20100633()inbox!lv> #TTY: 9-8M 4554 ~ TYPE 1707-A3 S/N L3-M2812 SLACKWARE 13.0 RLU #527034 ,------- They say that Nethack bugs are Seldon planned `-----------------------{,_,"> http://porneia.free.fr/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1337179878.28367.53.camel@eva04
