Bug#559195: Cannot build the source package in clean chroot, unable to pdebbuild the package.

[Artur R. Czechowski]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 02:33:14PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2009, Artur R. Czechowski wrote:
> > Well, under mentioned circumstances it is obviously my fault, because
> > I am using tools in a not intended way. Of course, it would be nice
>  Theoritically build-deps should be installed for clean, but pbuilder
>  and dpkg-buildpackage don't enforce this.
Let's say it - average developer has installed all needed development
libraries and can compile the maintained software using his normal
environment. The pbuilder is used to check if Build-depends is correct.

>  One thing which could be done is packing the source with dpkg-source -b
>  in the development environment and copying it to the chroot, *then*
>  building the source + binaries in the chroot env.
However, if there would be any means to fulfill the other case: rebuild
any package without installing build dependencies on normal environment
and provide such functionality in pbuilder - it would be really nice.

Regards
	Artur