-=| Niko Tyni, Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 08:58:37AM +0300 |=- > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:25:13PM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > > -=| Philipp Kern, Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 09:52:13PM +0200 |=- > > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:16:17PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 04:13:59PM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > > > > > libextutils-cbuilder-perl: already installed (=*=PROVIDED=*= >= > > > > > 0.24 is satisfied) > > > > The broken handling of provided packages was #395271, fixed in > > > > sbuild/0.57.4-1 in July last year. The fix is merged in the buildd-tools > > > > repository [1], so the buildds could indeed fare better now. > > > > [1] git://git.debian.org/git/buildd-tools/sbuild.git > > > > > > But the new sbuild is only used on a minority of buildds, so thou > > > shalt not rely on the new behaviour, yet. > > > > Is there something we can do to ensure the right build-dependencies > > are pulled in this case? > > Looking at the source, I don't think the newer ExtUtils::CBuilder version > is really needed, and trying to build it with just the perl-modules one > seems to confirm this.
So we are lucky. I'll upload a revision with unversioned build-depends. Thanks for your investigation. > (In fact, it looks like there's no point in having the newer > libextutils-cbuilder-perl as a separate package at all, judging by > the upstream changelog between 0.21 and 0.24. The Hurd and KFreeBSD > fixes are in perl-modules too.) True. The last upstream release is from August 2008. There is a new development release from March, but it again contains nothing terribly interesting. Yet another task for a rainy Sunday afternoon, I guess :) -- dam
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