Re: [Quilt-dev] Converting the latex documentation?

[Martin Quinson]

On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 09:15:52AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> > > > If they share the same source tarball, it won't help me out.
> > > 
> > > Why that, please?
> > 
> > Well, because all the binary package comming from the same source package
> > share the same build-dependencies. I guess it can be seen as one of the
> > debian package limitation, maybe.
> 
> To me, yes, clearly. If you want to fix something, that would rather be
> this bug in the debian packaging system, rather than quilt's
> documentation format.

I fear I do not agree with you, of course ;) 

First, what I said was a bit oversimplified. In fact, there is two sets of
build-dependencies. One for the architecture dependent binary packages
(called build-depends) and one for the arch-independent ones (called
build-depends-indep).

Then, Debian packages are automatically built on build daemon which are in
charge of compiling them for all the 12 architectures (1). buildd only have
to build arch-dependent packages, of course, so they install the
build-depends set. 

For now, quilt only have one binary package, which is arch-dependent because
of backup-files. Of course, the build-dep/b-d-indep mecanism could be used
to solve the issue, and I guess it's the way I'll follow now. 

But removing the tex dependency would have been easier from my POV, so I
wanted to check whether it would be ok for you or not. It is not, and that's
cool with me ;)


Bye, Mt.


(1): build daemons status for quilt:
http://people.debian.org/~igloo/status.php?packages=quilt
See also: http://buildd.debian.org/stats/

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