Re: [Monotone-debian] state of the buildds

[Zack Weinberg]

On Nov 4, 2007 5:31 AM, Ludovic Brenta <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Yeah, I saw that.  I don't see anything on debian-powerpc to explain
> > the buildd problem :-(  Would it be possible for you to build and
> > upload powerpc packages for the next few versions?
>
> Yes. It's extra work but doable.

Much appreciated.

> So, you need to re-split the build dependencies into Build-Depends and
> Build-Depends-Indep and investigate why dpkg-buildpackage -B would try
> to build the manual.  It shouldn't, and that's a bug in debian/rules.

Ok, after a great deal of bludgeoning I have tagged monotone-0.37-2.
amd64 packages build correctly both by hand and in pbuilder, and
dpkg-buildpackage -B does not build any of the manual.  This
unfortunately involves bending policy a little -- the "build" target
won't build the manual either, even though it ought to.  Given that
build-arch has been specified for *six years* and still
dpkg-buildpackage and the buildds are unaware of it, I think I am
allowed to bend the rules a little. :-/

debian/rules was totally rewritten - I just could not make cdbs do
what I needed it to, so I dropped back to a plain debhelper template.
Probably could use a review.

Let me know if you have any questions.

zw