Bug#787044: libdebian-installer: please make new Build-Depends: check optional via build profiles

2015-08-24 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 07:05:52AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: You may be aware that libdebian-installer is considered transitively build-essential. In practise, this means that it needs to be cross buildable. The most recent upload of version 0.100 added a new build dependency on check. The

Bug#787044: libdebian-installer: please make new Build-Depends: check optional via build profiles

2015-05-29 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, On Fri, 29 May 2015 00:34:18 +0200 Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org wrote: Helmut Grohne hel...@subdivi.de (2015-05-28): You may be aware that libdebian-installer is considered transitively build-essential. I wasn't. If one wants to build build-essential from scratch without relying

Bug#787044: libdebian-installer: please make new Build-Depends: check optional via build profiles

2015-05-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hello, Johannes Schauer jo...@debian.org (2015-05-29): If one wants to build build-essential from scratch without relying on packages from the archive (bootstrap scenario) then one has to recursively build its build dependencies, the build dependencies of these, and so on and so forth. The

Bug#787044: libdebian-installer: please make new Build-Depends: check optional via build profiles

2015-05-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hello, Helmut Grohne hel...@subdivi.de (2015-05-28): Source: libdebian-installer Version: 0.100 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch User: helm...@debian.org Usertags: rebootstrap You may be aware that libdebian-installer is considered transitively build-essential. I wasn't. In practise,

Bug#787044: libdebian-installer: please make new Build-Depends: check optional via build profiles

2015-05-27 Thread Helmut Grohne
Source: libdebian-installer Version: 0.100 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch User: helm...@debian.org Usertags: rebootstrap You may be aware that libdebian-installer is considered transitively build-essential. In practise, this means that it needs to be cross buildable. The most recent upload of