On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 01:13:53PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > I just tested on ubuntu breezy and I've the following comments:
> > 1. s/gawk/awk/g #gawk name not present on ubuntu breezy at least
> Ubuntu is broken then ... gawk should be installed and awk should be a 
> symlink 
> to it.  unless Ubunutu is installing a slimmed down awk that matches POSIX 
> and expects gawk as an addition (which it should force as part of its 
> system).
> 
> you cant just go around doing s/gawk/awk/g without actually checking the code 
> to see if it contains GNU-isms ...

What it actually means is that util-linux should build-depend: gawk.
(or we just don't run tests...)

Also, breezy became unsupported about 3 months ago...

> > 3. The configure script indicated correctly that 
> > I needed to install the libblkid-dev package, but not the uuid-dev package.
> 
> that's distro specific ... i dont think we want to go encoding every 
> dependency that random $distro needs ...

And debian/control is where those would go.  Note that I plan to upload
2.13 to Ubuntu's gutsy release at the same time I upload it to Debian
sid. (There are some differences caused by dealing with the hardware
clock differently, so it will be two uploads.)

lamont
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