Bug#834744: xmlgraphics-commons: FTBFS (missing build-depends on gnupg)

[Santiago Vila]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 04:47:15AM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote:

> You should rather work towards defining a common build environment
> standard in Debian [...]

You must be joking. There is already a "common build environment standard",
and it's called the set of build essential packages, of which gnupg is not
(not the old gnupg, not the new gnupg, not the old gnupg2, and not the
new gnupg1).

Everything which is required to build and it's not in build essential
must go in build-depends.

What part of this standard (the build essential set of packages, the
one that really counts, not the list of packages in the package
builder of the day) is the one that you don't understand?

It's in Policy 4.2, here is a quote:

     If build-time dependencies are specified, it *must* be possible to
     build the package and produce working binaries on a system with
     *only* essential and build-essential packages installed and also
     those required to satisfy the build-time relationships (including
     any implied relationships).


This is what you are still not doing with your pbuilder example.

You say "unreproducible", I say unwillingess to reproduce.

This is a must directive in policy, and everybody agrees that missing
build-depends are RC. Do you still disagree that this is severity
serious?