Bug#797858: devscripts: build-rdeps does not work for any but the most trivial dependency situatinos

* Johannes Schauer , 2015-09-11, 10:00: How about doing it the following way then: If dose-ceve is not installed, throw an error message and tell the user to either install the dose-extra package or use the option --simple-mode which uses the old behaviour. Sounds good to

Bug#797858: devscripts: build-rdeps does not work for any but the most trivial dependency situatinos

Hi Jakub, thanks a lot for your review - much appreciated! Quoting Jakub Wilk (2015-09-10 16:21:26) > >If dose-ceve is installed (and new enough) then build-rdeps will use it > >to calculate the reverse build dependencies of a binary packages. If > >dose-ceve is not installed (or too old) then

Bug#797858: devscripts: build-rdeps does not work for any but the most trivial dependency situatinos

Hi Johannes! [Disclaimer: I'm not a devscripts maintainer.] * Johannes Schauer , 2015-09-03, 07:08: the only situation in which build-rdeps works reliably is if - the source package specifies "Build-Depends: foo" - foo is a real package - all source packages using foo

Bug#797858: devscripts: build-rdeps does not work for any but the most trivial dependency situatinos

Package: devscripts Version: 2.15.8 Severity: important Tags: patch Hi, the only situation in which build-rdeps works reliably is if - the source package specifies "Build-Depends: foo" - foo is a real package - all source packages using foo directly depend on it - foo is Multi-Arch:no the