Bug#484291: pbuilder: should depend on dpkg-dev
Junichi Uekawa
dancer at netfort.gr.jp
Wed Jun 4 09:06:26 UTC 2008
Hi,
> > > using pdebuild without installing dpkg-dev doesn't work:
> > > W: /home/mohammed/.pbuilderrc does not exist
> > > /usr/bin/pdebuild: line 32: dpkg-parsechangelog: command not found
> > > /usr/bin/pdebuild: line 33: dpkg-parsechangelog: command not found
> > > /usr/bin/pdebuild: line 34: dpkg-architecture: command not found
> > >
> > > Maybe it should be in Recommends not in Depends ?
> >
> > If you had installed the recommended devscripts, it would have been
> > pulled in as one of the dependencies.
> >
> > So the question is whether it should be depended upon or not, instead
> > of recommending.
>
>
> I can say that debhelper is also needed because pdebuild does a clean in the beginning
>
> I'm not really sure about the Recommends Vs. Depends part.
>
> in theory, pbuilder can be used to build base tarballs which needs neither debhelper nor dpkg-dev
> but how useful are they by themselves ?
pdebuild doesn't work, but I think 'pbuilder' command itself will work
fine. However I must admit that I have never tried running pbuilder
without dpkg-dev installed. (Most of the chroots have build-essential
installed, which pulls in dpkg-dev).
regards,
junichi
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