Hi, trying to answer what I know. The remainder is probably better answered by Daniel Hartwig or someone else with a better overview over Aptitude's code than me.
[email protected] wrote: > > As for every other package, ensure that you have a deb-src line in > > your sources.list matching the deb line the package is coming from > > and execute: > > > > apt-get build-dep aptitude > > > > It should install all needed packages to build the package from > > source. > > To be honest, I did not did it, for a more or less valid reason: > there were a lot of things needed, that I am not able to see why > they should be needed. Unfortunately that's not a valid reason. ;-) > An example is elinks, a ncurse web browser ( and without development > package concerning it ). It's used to convert HTML files to plain text. See doc/html-to-text. > There were also things that aptitude does not seems to depends, It's very common that there is more software needed to build a program than to use it, especially if a program has a test-suite, because there are usually additional programs needed to run the tests. Another common reason is building documentation from sources. > when I look into what aptitude says about aptitude's dependencies, > like python-dev It's libboost-python-dev which pulls in python-dev. I must admit I wasn't able to find the reason for this build-dependency immediately and the versioning control history doesn't reach as far back as when this was added. So I tried to build aptitude without this build-dependency to see where it fails... Did that with the current version of Aptitude in Debian Unstable. It indeed builds without the libboost-python-dev build-dependency and even the resulting file lists dependencies of the resulting binary package show no relevant differences. I suspect this is a relict from the times where also an Aptitude GUI was built. Daniel: Can you cross-check if I'm right with above observations and if so, remove that build-dependency? > (and I just checked anew, even in aptitude's dependencies > there are no python dependency). But I do not know how build-dep > works in it's internals, so I may be wrong anyway. Basically, the Build-Depends in debian/control lists all packages _necessary_ to build the package properly -- except those which are already a dependency of the package build-essential or of priority "required". "apt-get build-dep" or "aptitude build-dep" look up this list and install everything in that list (and its dependencies) which is not already installed. It's that simple. > I already did some installation the same way as I did, and > everything was fine. Sometimes some build-dependencies are optional, but if they're missing, the built packages has not all features it should have. This often affects stuff like GNOME or KDE support or supporting one or more image formats. > At least, I had some dependency errors, but was able to fix them > easily by reading the output. Actually you don't have to do that. The package maintainer already did that and wrote the result into the above mentioned Build-Depends header. > I just installed the aptitude build-dep stuff, and have exactly the > same result, still against the git repo. I can confirm that though. Looks like some Boost incompatibility with the current boost version. I suspect the fix of 0.6.8.2-1.2 is missing in Git. Daniel, can you answer that one more precisely? > > As this is a aptitude specific question I would suggest following > > up on [email protected] as they can probably > > help better with more specific problems than deity@ can. > > Sorry for that, I did not found it on the wiki page > http://lists.debian.org/devel.html, (JFTR: That's no wiki page.) The page is maintained by the Debian List Masters and includes only lists on lists.debian.org -- Aptitude's mailing list is a list which belongs to the project Aptitude on Alioth (alioth.debian.org, Debian's instance of a SourceForge-alike system), and Alioth's lists independent of those lists hosted on lists.debian.org. (Yes, this may be not obvious. Just explaining.) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
