Re: checker cannot be built from source (bug 14066 et al)

1997-10-22 Thread Ben Pfaff
Not to make this any harder, but Checker actually needs *versioned* source dependencies; i.e., when gcc 2.7.2.4 is released, I will have to go and make sure that nothing breaks and make a few changes before recompiling. So doesn't there have to be a way to ensure that the old gcc sources (from 2.7

Re: checker cannot be built from source (bug 14066 et al)

1997-10-22 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Ian Jackson wrote: > [ ... ] > So, I conclude that we need in the .dsc: > > Source-Depends: binary-package (version-revision), ... > [...] This was discussed in July in debian-devel, if I remember well. Andreas Jellinghaus created a list

checker cannot be built from source (bug 14066 et al)

1997-10-22 Thread Ian Jackson
This is a nontrivial problem, unfortunately. I think it is very important that we make it possible to build packages automatically. That means that a script has to be able to download the source package, figure out what binary packages need to be installed on the system to do the build, run the r