Re: request: check installability of Depends before building

2018-02-12 Thread Philipp Kern
On 02/13/2018 02:05 AM, Afif Elghraoui wrote: > All I was asking for is to have the run-time dependencies (at least the > explicitly specified ones; the autogenerated ones usually come from > Build-Depends anyway) checked before starting the build for exactly the > reason you're mentioning. > >

Re: request: check installability of Depends before building

2018-02-12 Thread Afif Elghraoui
On February 12, 2018 4:55:09 PM EST, Philipp Kern wrote: >On 02/12/2018 10:16 PM, Afif Elghraoui wrote: >> Besides unnecessary repetition in d/control, lying to the build >server in telling it that it needs a package in order to build could >cause unnecesssary problems in bootstrapping. > >Well,

Re: request: check installability of Depends before building

2018-02-12 Thread Philipp Kern
On 02/12/2018 10:16 PM, Afif Elghraoui wrote: > Besides unnecessary repetition in d/control, lying to the build server in > telling it that it needs a package in order to build could cause unnecesssary > problems in bootstrapping. Well, but we're running a real-world system here. In an optimal w

Re: request: check installability of Depends before building

2018-02-12 Thread Afif Elghraoui
On February 12, 2018 6:10:18 AM EST, Julien Cristau wrote: >On 12/03/2017 07:38 PM, Afif Elghraoui wrote: >> >> >> على السبت 2 كانون الأول 2017 ‫06:14، كتب Julien Cristau: >>> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 00:40:12 -0400, Afif Elghraoui wrote: >>> >~~~https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debia

Re: request: check installability of Depends before building

2018-02-12 Thread Julien Cristau
On 12/03/2017 07:38 PM, Afif Elghraoui wrote: > > > على السبت 2 كانون الأول 2017 ‫06:14، كتب Julien Cristau: >> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 00:40:12 -0400, Afif Elghraoui wrote: >> >>> >>> ~~~https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-med/sga.git/tree/debian/control >>> Priority: optional >>> Build-Depe

Re: request: check installability of Depends before building

2017-12-03 Thread Afif Elghraoui
على السبت 2 كانون الأول 2017 ‫06:14، كتب Julien Cristau: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 00:40:12 -0400, Afif Elghraoui wrote: > >> >> ~~~https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-med/sga.git/tree/debian/control >> Priority: optional >> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10), >>dh-autoreconf,

Re: request: check installability of Depends before building

2017-12-02 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 00:40:12 -0400, Afif Elghraoui wrote: > Hello, > Currently, we have that packages don't build if any build-dependencies > are not installable. I'd like to suggest that we do the same for > run-time dependencies. > > What ends up happening is that the package itself may bui