Uploading bzr-1.5rc1 to the launchpad ppa

Forest Bond forest at alittletooquiet.net
Sat May 10 14:32:10 BST 2008


Hi,

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 07:22:19AM -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> James Westby wrote:
> > John, the failure you were seeing was because you didn't have "quilt"
> > installed. This should be a Build-Depends, so it should have not
> > allowed you to build without it. If it does allow you to build then
> > documenting it would be a good idea (and might be anyway).
> 
> I also needed 'fastimport' and 'cdbs' to be installed. but I had figured
> those out. (Basically it failed not finding something with that name, so
> I did apt-get install...). Is there a way for debuild to give a nice
> error of "missing package XXX to build this"?

debuild does provide such messages.  For instance, here's what happens when I
add a build-dep for bogus package "foobarbaz":

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
09:30 fab at storm$ debuild
 dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc
dpkg-buildpackage: set CPPFLAGS to default value:
dpkg-buildpackage: set CFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: set CXXFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: set FFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: set LDFLAGS to default value: -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions
dpkg-buildpackage: source package bzr
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 1.4.0-1~bazaar1~hardy1
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com>
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture i386
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: foobarbaz
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting.
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: (Use -d flag to override.)
debuild: fatal error at line 1329:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc failed
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

-Forest
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