[maemo-developers] AutoBuilders ignoring a depenancy

[From: Ed Bartosh]

2009/10/22 Nathan Anderson <nathan at andersonsplace.net>:
> Ed,
>
>        I resubmitted my package; and it decided to ignore one of my
> dependency.  (But it did pull in the optified packages! <g>)
>
> https://garage.maemo.org/builder/fremantle/sword_1.6.0a-0maemo1/armel.root.l
> og.OK.txt Shows:
>
> 2009-10-22 17:46:55] Try to install static depends:
> libcurl3 libcurl3-dev libicu42 libicu42-dev clucene-core clucene-core-dev
> zlib1g-dev python2.5 python2.5-dev maemo-optify
>
> However the dsc file has:
> https://garage.maemo.org/builder/fremantle/sword_1.6.0a-0maemo1/sources/swor
> d_1.6.0a-0maemo1.dsc
>
> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), libcurl3, libcurl3-dev, libicu42,
> libicu42-dev, clucene-core, clucene-core-dev, zlib1g-dev, zlib1g, python2.5,
> python2.5-dev, swig1.3, maemo-optify
>
>        It ignored my "swig1.3" request.   The "default" swig inside
> scratchbox/sdk is 1.3.29 -- It generates totally broken code for this
> package so I took the debian packaged 1.3.40 and added the minor changes to
> it to make it work on maemo.   It is listed in the extras repository as
> "swig1.3"
>
Just put swig1.3 (>= 1.3.40) into Build-depends: line of your package.
It should solve the problem.

-- 
BR,
Ed