On Aug 26, 2011, at 10:32 PM, Colin Watson wrote: >It should now be possible to use xz compression for .deb packages >uploaded to Ubuntu oneiric (using 'dh_builddeb -- -Zxz'). In order to >do so, you must include this field in the relevant binary packages: > > Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6)
I just ran into this when I merged testing's version of m2crypto, which had switched to xz compression. The merge was tricky and I missed this tidbit in the Debian packaging, but I did do a local sbuild for precise before uploaded, and it succeeded without the Pre-Depends. However, when the buildd got to that point, it failed: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/83677349/buildlog_ubuntu-precise-amd64.m2crypto_0.21.1-2ubuntu1_BUILDING.txt.gz I need to try it again on pbuilder to see what happens there. Of course, it's easy enough to add the Pre-Depends, but now I'm gunshy and don't trust my sbuild environment, so I'm building it in a PPA first. Unfortunately, that's scheduled for *2 days* from now (!). Yeah, I'll try to get it re-scored, but that's beside the point. Any idea why it succeeded in sbuild, and do you have any other suggestions for testing such package builds locally before uploading? -Barry
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