build-from-branch into the primary archive

[Barry Warsaw]

On Feb 17, 2011, at 02:16 PM, Bilal Akhtar wrote:

>Some (only *some*) packages need extra build deps just to run bzr
>builddeb -S . Since that command will be run on buildds having all
>build-deps installed (please correct me if I am wrong), building and
>uploading a package would eat up more resources, since the buildds would
>need to be called twice: once for packaging the source from the branch
>and once per arch for building it .

This is true.  debian/control cannot express the difference between
dependencies needed to build the source package and those needed to build the
binary packages.  The real fix I think would be in the format of
debian/control to handle these (admittedly few, but always annoying) cases.
In the meantime, build-from-branch needs a workaround for that case.

-Barry
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