[Pkg-tcltk-devel] [SPAM] - request for upload [Was: Re: aolserver4: which depends setting to use?] - Bayesian Filter detected spam

[Sergei Golovan]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:34 AM, <stefan.sobernig at wu.ac.at> wrote:
> Frankie,
> Sergei, ...
>> just uploaded, it should be installed in the afternoon.
>>
>> You should depend on aolserver4-core- at AOLVER@- at AOLABI@ as declared in the
>> debian.mak file. So, introduce a control.in template with that depending
>> and build automagically the correct debian/control. It would be better
>> build-depending on aolserver4-dev (>= 4.5.1-3) in any case to avoid FTBS due to
>> unaligned versions at buildd level
>
> I completed a new maintenance release for the xotcl package, including
> frankie's debian/control templating. May I request its upload?!

It seems to me that there's something wrong with the idea to remove
debian/control. Pbuilder (and buildd) uses it to pull in build
dependencies, so it currently desides that xotcl doesn't require any
and gives the following error latre:

 fakeroot debian/rules clean
debian/rules:62: /usr/share/aolserver4/debian.mak: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/share/aolserver4/debian.mak'.  Stop.

I think that it would be better to use debian/control and introduce
dependency on aolserver abi using some custom substitution variable.
Something like the following:

Depends: xotcl (>= ${binary:Version}), ${aolserver4-core-aolabi}

in debian/control

echo aolserver4-core-aolabi=aolserver4-core-$(AOLVER)-$(AOLABI)
>>debian/aolserver4-xotcl.substvars

in debian/rules

As for now I can't build the package.

Cheers!
-- 
Sergei Golovan