On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 09:17:21PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > Per policy 7.6, build-deps must be available for "clean"; pbuilder > calls dpkg-buildpackage -S to generate a source suitable to be copied > into the build environment; by default, this involves cleaning before > building the source, but dpkg-checkbuilddeps isn't run before cleaning. > > I think dpkg-builcpackage should run dpkg-checkbuilddeps and fail at > this point when called with -S. Currently, clean might fail if > build-deps are unavailable (such as missing patch system package), but > this should really be an error detected earlier on.
This behaviour is as old as dpkg-checkbuilddeps itself (see cf5d2919f686a15e8e623130b74af3ba2428fbeb in git). Changing the behaviour would obviously be "correct", the question is whether it would actually be "better". Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/
