Re: Build dependencies: some thoughts

1999-10-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 03:17:52PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Firstly, that if we are now demanding build-time dependencies, we are > asking maintainers to do a *lot* of work. (This took me about 2 > hours, maybe a little bit more.) We ought to think of a better way of > performing this task i

Re: Build dependencies: some thoughts

1999-10-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 03:17:52PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Finally, a small point. It may be worth stating that if a package is > required to satisfy an (install-time) dependency of a listed > dependency, then it does not need to be listed itself. Although, > having said this, I think this

Re: Build dependencies: some thoughts

1999-10-27 Thread Goswin Brederlow
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK, I've just tried to calculate the build-time dependencies for > debian-policy, and here are some thoughts. > > It's not easy. In fact it's *really* not easy. > > I first tried running strace on the build process, but due to the > presence of a vfor

Re: Build dependencies: some thoughts

1999-10-27 Thread Julian Gilbey
> It seems you have not read the amendment. There was a mechanism for > this even in the first draft. > > And I would have appreciated these comments at the proposal stage, when > we were still hammering out the thing. I even called for people with > complicated packages to give their input when

Re: Build dependencies: some thoughts

1999-10-27 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 03:17:52PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > It's not easy. In fact it's *really* not easy. It is easy. I've specified build-time dependencies on some of my packages for months now. You just happened to try a nasty case as your first. > Standard packages: dpkg-dev, lynx, ma

Re: Build dependencies: some thoughts

1999-10-27 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 03:17:52PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > OK, I've just tried to calculate the build-time dependencies for > debian-policy, and here are some thoughts. > > It's not easy. In fact it's *really* not easy. When I came up with a simple implementation awhile back, the fakeroot

Re: Build dependencies: some thoughts

1999-10-27 Thread Roman Hodek
> OK, I've just tried to calculate the build-time dependencies for > debian-policy, and here are some thoughts. > > It's not easy. In fact it's *really* not easy. If you really want to (more or less) automate it, it's really not easy... But for most packages, src-deps are rather clear. It seems