Colin Watson <[email protected]> writes: > I happened to notice recently that debian-policy 3.8.1.0 fails to > build due to a missing build-dependency on texlive-latex-extra. Since > it's Architecture: all, of course, it's easy to miss this in Debian, > but I noticed it in Ubuntu and then verified it in a relatively clean > Debian chroot: > > > http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26062790/buildlog_ubuntu-karmic-i386.debian-policy_3.8.1.0_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz > > I've committed a fix to our git repository, of course, but I sort of > feel that we shouldn't leave this kind of thing lying around for too > long in debian-policy of all places. :-) Russ and others, would anyone > mind if I rolled 3.8.2.0 with what we have now? Or does somebody else > want to, or is there a reason not to do so (e.g. too much > Standards-Version churn)?
Well, that's unfortunate. I intentionally removed the dependency on texlive-latex-extra after testing a build with it absent to be sure that nothing required it because texlive-latex-extra is kind of insane and makes the package take forever to build since it has to set up a ton of expensive LaTeX packages. I wonder what broke about my testing. I suppose I should have erred on the side of caution rather than trying to make package builds less annoying. Sorry about that. I don't mind a release with what we have now. The churn is unfortunate since there's nothing particularly exciting in the changes committed so far, but I hate to leave FTBFS bugs lingering for that reason. I updated the wiki to be more complete about the release steps. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
