[Sisuite-devel] Small patch to debian/control file

[Andrea Capriotti]

Hi,

I find that some dependencies are missing and this patch adds python-dev
and wget to Build-Depends and docbook-utils to Build-Depends-Indep to
fix the problems.

$ svn diff
Index: debian/control.in
===================================================================
--- debian/control.in (revisione 4322)
+++ debian/control.in (copia locale)
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Maintainer: dann frazier <***@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: bc, bzip2, cramfsprogs (>= 1.1-4), debhelper (>= 4.0.0), flex, gettext, groff-base, libdevmapper-dev, libpopt-dev, libtool, libreadline5-dev, libssl-dev, module-init-tools, rsync, texinfo, uuid-dev, zlib1g-dev, tofrodos | sysutils (<= 2.0.0-1)
+Build-Depends: bc, bzip2, cramfsprogs (>= 1.1-4), debhelper (>= 4.0.0), flex, gettext, groff-base, libdevmapper-dev, libpopt-dev, libtool, libreadline5-dev, libssl-dev, module-init-tools, python-dev, rsync, texinfo, uuid-dev, wget, zlib1g-dev, tofrodos | sysutils (<= 2.0.0-1)
Build-Conflicts: libc-pic
-Build-Depends-Indep: docbook-to-man
+Build-Depends-Indep: docbook-to-man, docbook-utils
Standards-Version: 3.7.2

Package: systemimager-server

Best Regards

[Andrea Righi]

Post by Andrea Capriotti
I find that some dependencies are missing and this patch adds python-dev
and wget to Build-Depends and docbook-utils to Build-Depends-Indep to
fix the problems.

A small patch for a man, a giant leap for systemimager! :-) Any kind of help in
dep packaging is strongly appreciated. Applied:

http://svn.systemimager.org/listing.php?repname=systemimager&path=%2Ftrunk%2F&rev=4325&sc=1

Thanks,
-Andrea

[dann frazier]

Post by Andrea Capriotti
Hi,
I find that some dependencies are missing and this patch adds python-dev
and wget to Build-Depends and docbook-utils to Build-Depends-Indep to
fix the problems.

fwiw, wget isn't a build-dependency for the official packages because
they include all of the necessary source - fetching source during a
build isn't considered legal for official builds. Of course, the
debian code in the upstream trunk presumably still fetches source
itself, so its probably a valid addition there.

[Andrea Righi]

Post by dann frazier

Post by Andrea Capriotti
Hi,
I find that some dependencies are missing and this patch adds python-dev
and wget to Build-Depends and docbook-utils to Build-Depends-Indep to
fix the problems.

fwiw, wget isn't a build-dependency for the official packages because
they include all of the necessary source - fetching source during a
build isn't considered legal for official builds. Of course, the
debian code in the upstream trunk presumably still fetches source
itself, so its probably a valid addition there.

So if I understand well the solution here would be to include all the necessary
source of the external packages directly into the systemimager source? which
solution has been used for 3.6.3 (the latest release included in Debian)?

-Andrea

[dann frazier]

Post by Andrea Righi

Post by dann frazier

Post by Andrea Capriotti
Hi,
I find that some dependencies are missing and this patch adds python-dev
and wget to Build-Depends and docbook-utils to Build-Depends-Indep to
fix the problems.

fwiw, wget isn't a build-dependency for the official packages because
they include all of the necessary source - fetching source during a
build isn't considered legal for official builds. Of course, the
debian code in the upstream trunk presumably still fetches source
itself, so its probably a valid addition there.

So if I understand well the solution here would be to include all the necessary
source of the external packages directly into the systemimager source? which
solution has been used for 3.6.3 (the latest release included in Debian)?

The Debian packages have always included all external source; I don't
think that's necessarily the right solution for upstream (in fact, I
was the one who wrote 'getsource' et al, as I recall). But when
distributions ship binaries they must also be able to ship the exact
source on the same media, otherwise they risk violating the GPL. And,
builds need to be reproducable, so they shouldn't depend on external
services that could go away.

[Andrea Righi]

Post by dann frazier
The Debian packages have always included all external source; I don't
think that's necessarily the right solution for upstream (in fact, I
was the one who wrote 'getsource' et al, as I recall). But when
distributions ship binaries they must also be able to ship the exact
source on the same media, otherwise they risk violating the GPL. And,
builds need to be reproducable, so they shouldn't depend on external
services that could go away.

Thanks for your usual precious clarifications dann. So, Andrea(C) what do you
think? it seems reasonable to remove the wget from Build-Depends.

-Andrea(R)