[get-build-deps] improve local dependency handling without pbuilder-satisfydepends

[Siegfried Gevatter]

Binary package hint: ubuntu-dev-tools

When get-build-deps is used to install the dependencies for a local source package (ie, looking at the debian/control file rather than apt's database), by default it just runs pbuilder-satisfydepends, but in the case that script isn't available it will manually call aptitude parsing the output from dpkg-checkbuilddeps.

It would be better if this last one would be the default behaviour, but for that some problems need to be fixed first:

 * It doesn't check that the versions match (but just install the newest one available).

 * It doesn't handle alternatives (dependencies like: required_package | alternative_package).

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

There is now mk-build-deps (which uses equivs rather than pbuilder-satisfydepends). Do we need get-build-deps?

[Stefano Rivera (stefanor)]

Removed get-build-deps.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-dev-tools - 0.131

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ubuntu-dev-tools (0.131) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Stefano Rivera ]
  * doc/requestsync.1: Correct default value for REQUESTSYNC_SMTP_SERVER
    (LP: #844992)
  * import-bug-from-debian: Bugs are filed against source packages in Ubuntu.
    (LP: #844734)
  * Debian source publication records are all Published now, not pending
    (LP: #845487)
  * requestsync:
    - Add nice error messages to gpg-signing code, rather than simple
      assertions (LP: #537288)
    - Extract current Ubuntu delta from changelog entries and provide for
      editing (LP: #547925)
  * submittodebian:
    - Don't parse the entire changelog, to avoid bumping into past illegal
      version numbers (LP: #727314)
    - Iterate over changelog blocks rather than using Changelog's private
      _blocks list.
  * LP: #806633:
    - ubuntutools.update_maintainer: Don't use strict changelog parsing
    - sponsor-patch: Perform strict validation on the first changelog entry.
  * setup-packaging-environment:
    - Software Sources isn't on the Administration menu, post Gnome 2
      (LP: #841975)
    - Use apt-get rather than aptitude.
  * Removed get-build-deps, mk-build-deps -ir is equivalent (LP: #158108)
  * ubuntutools.archive:
    - Add quiet option to silence downloading.
    - Use wget-style progress bar (fixed width) (LP: #845787)
  * Bump python-debian B-D and Depends to 0.1.20 for unicode Changelog
    reading.
  * backportpackage: Use absolute path of workdir when test-building.

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * syncpackage: Fix typo.

  [ Benjamin Drung ]
  * ubuntutools/requestsync: Follow PEP 8 naming conventions.

 -- Stefano Rivera <email address hidden> Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:48:23 +0200