[maemo-developers] debhelper in Sardine

[From: Jussi Hakala]

I'd rather keep the dependencies in place and use -d with the 
dpkg-buildpackage.

Anyway, if you check dependencies using dpkg-checkbuilddeps it should 
find the scratchbox provided tools. The apt does not see them but that's 
no issue if you just need to build the packages.

Regards,

   Jussi

ext Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 10:47 +0300, Terje Bergström wrote:
>> On 7/29/07, Murray Cumming <murrayc at murrayc.com> wrote:
>>         I'm trying to build a debian package for cairomm, using the
>>         original
>>         debian package. It needs debhelper, but it doesn't seem to be
>>         available
>>         in Sardine (It is available in Bora). I never fully understand
>>         apt-get 
>>         errors but here they are in case they provide a clue:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> There seems to be something fishy with the dependencies, but you
>> really should not need to install debhelper. What's happening is that
>> debhelper (or actually an empty virtual package) is installed already.
>> You are asking apt-get to upgrade to a newer version from sardine and
>> the newer version has dependency problems. 
> 
> Yes, thanks, I just installed debhelper outside of scratchbox, removed
> debhelper from the build dependencies in debian/control, and also
> decreased the number in debian/compat. That last change is probably a
> bad idea, but it seems to work.
> 
> This allows me to build the packages.
> 
> Of course, I'd rather have a real debhelper in scratchbox so I have to
> make less changes to debian build files.
> 
>> Just don't upgrade debhelper and you should be fine. In any case
>> Scratchbox will override debhelper with its own, so what's installed
>> with apt-get is irrelevant.
>