Bug#540861: Cannot reproduce FTBFS - looks like the buildd ignores policy 7.7

[Bill Allombert]

On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 09:57:00PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> Niels Thykier wrote:
> > Hi Kurt
> > 
> > Looking at your build log it seems like it does not fetch the
> > Build-Depends-Indep before invoking "debian/rules build", which it
> > should according to the policy [#7.7].
> 
> Which is wrong since we have build daemons AFAIK, maybe it's time to get
> corrected (policy list in Cc)?

This is a well-known issue with dpkg-buildpackage (#229357). Fix and patches
have been proposed for ages. This is not a bug in the build daemons and not a
bug in policy either (dpkg-buildpackage -B should call build-arch instead of
build if available).

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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