Bug#229174: Build-Depends still broken

Arnaud Vandyck Arnaud Vandyck <avdyk@debian.org>, 229174@bugs.debian.org
Wed Jan 28 00:23:01 2004


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LaMont Jones <lamont@debian.org> writes:

>> Build-Depends: debhelper (>=3D 4.0.0), dpatch (>=3D 1.11), j2sdk1.3 | j2=
sdk1.4
>> Build-Depends: gcc
>
> Two issues here:
> 1) gcc is build-essential, and should not be declared as a build-dependen=
cy
> 2) the second build-depends line overrides the first one, resulting in
>    effectively no useful build-depends (because of #1).

OK, removed. Thanks.

> Also note that the buildd's will choose the first of the alternatives,

buildd? the package is in contrib. AFAIK, there is no buildd for the
contrib packages.

> so j2sdk1.3 will be used on all of the autobuilders, possibly
> resulting in errors (when it doesn't exist, but j2sdk1.4 does...)

None exists in Debian. And j2sdk1.4 does not exists in Debian package
From=20Blackdown for PowerPC (AFAIK).

Thanks for your report.

A new upload is on its way,

Cheers,

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