anyone got working "straw" packages for Hoary?

[Justin Mason]

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Magnus Therning writes:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 01:28:28PM -0800, Justin Mason wrote:
> >BTW one possible thing that might be worth noting as a "distro thing"
> >rather than a single-package thing -- I found when I was attempting to
> >build straw 0.25.1 that there were a lot of dependency packages
> >required, and it was quite tricky to determine what the apt package's
> >name would be, from the requested Python package's name.  in other
> >words, it's not like perl, where a request for Mail::Audit means that
> >you need to install libmail-audit-perl -- which, while obscure, is at
> >least logical.
> >
> >Instead, to resolve a request for the python package "GObject", I had
> >to go grepping through apt-cache search looking for
> >GNOME/GTK+/glib-related python packages, and install a few "-dev" ones.
> >This probably wouldn't have been an issue with a working apt-gettable
> >package of course, but to a newbie at building python apps, it was
> >quite tricky.
> >
> >I'm not quite sure what can be done here, since I think most of these
> >are coming via universe, and I don't yet know what Ubuntu's policy is
> >on renaming debian packages in Ubuntu.   But if possible, it might help
> >if some "pseudo-packages" are created using something like the perl
> >convention, which simply result in installing the correctly-named
> >"python-foo-dev" package -- similar to how the ubuntu-calendar package
> >works?  that, in my opinion, would help...
> 
> Wouldn't it be good to report missing build dependencies as a bug?
> 
> A quick look at the Build-Depends: in the source package compared to the
> Depends: of the binary package suggests that the latter can be used as a
> clue to improve on the former.

in this case, though, I'm building from source tarball -- not from the 
source package.   I'd agree, if the src package leaves out build deps,
that's definitely a package bug; but this case is slightly different.

- --j.
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