Public bug reported: Binary package hint: sbuild
This is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=602571. The problem is sbuild now uses /usr/share/doc/build-essential/essential- packages-list to build up a list of packages to automatically install. This file has 'sysvinit' in it in the stable releases, but sysvinit is not an installable package in Ubuntu releases with upstart (this was fixed for natty in 11.5ubuntu1). The technically correct fix is to SRU build-essential to not list sysvinit for all stable releases that use upstart, however even if this was done people would still not be able to build packages on EOLd releases, which is not a huge deal but is somewhat desirable. One way to fix this is to special case Ubuntu in sbuild and remove 'sysvinit' from the list of essential packages to install. ** Affects: sbuild (Ubuntu) Importance: Critical Assignee: Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) Status: In Progress ** Affects: sbuild (Debian) Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #602571 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=602571 ** Also affects: sbuild (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=602571 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Registry Administrators, which is the registrant for Debian. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/684931 Title: cannot build stable release packages due to ESSENTIAL dep phase _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~registry Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~registry More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
