Re: dh-make broken deps for 3 releases (was: F-17 Branched report: 20120325 changes)

2012-03-26 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
I don't want it to sounds like I'm discouraging anyone from packaging these. I'm a well-known "packaging maximalist" :-) If they even let me do 'dpkg-deb -c ...' then there is some use for them. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v co

Re: dh-make broken deps for 3 releases (was: F-17 Branched report: 20120325 changes)

2012-03-26 Thread Oron Peled
On Monday, 26 בMarch 2012 13:08:33 Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) wrote: > I'm still interested in making available the packages through Fedora > repositories proper, but I'm also, admittedly, not paying attention to > the review tickets. I have what I need (rubygem-passenger and many > othe

Re: dh-make broken deps for 3 releases (was: F-17 Branched report: 20120325 changes)

2012-03-26 Thread Oron Peled
On Monday, 26 בMarch 2012 11:32:10 Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:57:44AM +0200, Oron Peled wrote: > >- This means that a Debian/Ubuntu workstation can build both .deb > > and RPM packages, and we cannot use Fedora for a similar role. > > Is this really true? What

Re: dh-make broken deps for 3 releases (was: F-17 Branched report: 20120325 changes)

2012-03-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Is this really true? What happens if, say, your program depends on > PCRE, which has different sonames on Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora (for > essentially the same library): The same thing which happens if you build for, say, RHEL 6 on Fedora 16 using mock, pbuilder is the

Re: dh-make broken deps for 3 releases

2012-03-26 Thread Kalev Lember
On 03/26/2012 01:57 AM, Oron Peled wrote: > On Sunday, 25 בMarch 2012 20:01:37 Kalev Lember wrote: >> For the past 17 months, each rawhide report has had broken dh-make deps. >> The package was imported 21 Oct 2010 depending on a non-existing >> "debhelper" package and has been broken ever since. >

Re: dh-make broken deps for 3 releases (was: F-17 Branched report: 20120325 changes)

2012-03-26 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:57:44AM +0200, Oron Peled wrote: > * IMO, it's important to have Debian packaging tools for Fedora so it >can be used as a more complete development platform: >- Currently, there's no problem building rpm's and yum repos on Debian > as a development platform

Re: dh-make broken deps for 3 releases (was: F-17 Branched report: 20120325 changes)

2012-03-25 Thread Oron Peled
On Sunday, 25 בMarch 2012 20:01:37 Kalev Lember wrote: > On 03/25/2012 02:44 PM, Fedora Branched Report wrote: > > Broken deps for i386 > > -- > [snip] > > [dh-make] > > dh-make-0.55-4.fc17.noarch requires debhelper > > For the past 17 mo

dh-make broken deps for 3 releases (was: F-17 Branched report: 20120325 changes)

2012-03-25 Thread Kalev Lember
On 03/25/2012 02:44 PM, Fedora Branched Report wrote: > Broken deps for i386 > -- [snip] > [dh-make] > dh-make-0.55-4.fc17.noarch requires debhelper For the past 17 months, each rawhide report has had broken dh-make deps. The package wa