Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.14.12 Severity: serious Tags: patch Dear dpkg developers,
Please see this thread for context, though I've pasted relevant stuff: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/12/msg00361.html <quote> Well, here's a further diagnosis. For some reason, the order of installed packages in the buildds (and my pbuilder) are being reordered in alphabetical order. See this old log. The apt-get command follows the same order as specified in the package's Build-Depends: http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=octave2.9&ver=1%3A2.9.17-1&arch=sparc&stamp=1195174810&file=log But here, it is in alphabetical order: http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=octave2.9&ver=1%3A2.9.19-1&arch=sparc&stamp=1197772112&file=log And I saw the source package for octave2.9, here's the control: Build-Depends: g++-4.1 (>= 4.1.1-4), debhelper (>= 5.0.0), autoconf, texinfo, texlive-latex-base, texlive-generic-recommended, g77, libreadline5-dev, [snip] Notice that refblas3-dev is _before_ lapack3-dev. Now, if apt-get is called faithfully in this order, atlas does not come in. But if it is reordered, the lapack3-dev dependencies are honoured first, and that pulls in atlas3-base, which is the first alternate dependency, and is satisfiable. </quote> As this has caused enough damage already (e.g. octave2.9, numpy etc.) not unnecessarily depend on atlas. Therefore, I chose to file this as serious. Please feel free to downgrade severity if you feel so. I've attached a trivial patch to prevent the ordering. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036
--- a/scripts/dpkg-source.pl 2007-11-23 08:12:51.000000000 +0530
+++ b/scripts/dpkg-source.pl 2007-12-20 12:13:58.000000000 +0530
@@ -324,7 +324,6 @@
error(_g("error occurred while parsing %s"), $_) unless defined $dep;
my $facts = Dpkg::Deps::KnownFacts->new();
$dep->simplify_deps($facts);
- $dep->sort();
$f{$_}= $dep->dump();
}
elsif (s/^X[BC]*S[BC]*-//i) { $f{$_}= $v; }
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