Steve, I have two concerns with your suggestion. First, are we sure that in the future, no Ubuntu or Debian buildd will do something stupid and think that because it has loaded dietlibc-dev, it doesn't need to load libc6-dev? Secondly, and probably more seriously, this means that I will have to constantly update the rules file as there are version bumps for the libc development package. (i.e., what happens when other architectures decide they need to go to libc6.1-dev?) This makes me less enthusiastic about putting that in the upstream debian control file.
What we really need is a build-recommends: line which requests buildd's to install certain packages if at all possible --- but where they won't fail hard if they can't find a certain package, such as dietlibc-dev, since the rules file and/or the configure file will do the right thing if the package can't be loaded. -- FTBFS in latest archive rebuild test https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/247678 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
