Re: suggestion: build-blockers field in control file

2011-12-02 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Russell Coker] Why not have software which wants to have the dependencies of a package look at the dependencies line as well as the build-dependencies? It seems to me that the package maintainers are already providing the necessary information and the people who maintain autobuilder

Re: suggestion: build-blockers field in control file

2011-12-01 Thread Jakub Wilk
* peter green plugw...@p10link.net, 2011-11-29, 19:23: Some packages have runtime dependencies on packages that they do not have corresponding build-dependencies for. This leads to the building of uninstallable packages which in turn leads to problems with testing transition of packages.

Re: suggestion: build-blockers field in control file

2011-12-01 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, peter green plugw...@p10link.net wrote: Some packages have runtime dependencies on packages that they do not have corresponding build-dependencies for. This leads to the building of uninstallable packages which in turn leads to problems with testing transition of packages.

Re: suggestion: build-blockers field in control file

2011-11-29 Thread Jonathan Nieder
peter green wrote: [...] This leads to the building of uninstallable packages which in turn leads to problems with testing transition of packages. Currently there are two workarounds for this situation 1: manually alter the package's architecture list to limit building to those