chokes on invalid build-dependencies, and not telling why

[Matthias Klose]

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Rejected:
openjdk-6_6b16~pre2-0ubuntu1.dsc: invalid build-depends field; cannot be parsed by apt: Problem Parsing Dependency

openjdk-6 (6b16~pre2-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * Update to re-tagged code drop (b16).
  * Update IcedTea build infrastructure (20090510).
  * Remove patches integrated in IcedTea.
  * Remove GCJ Web Plugin support.
  * Remove build infrastructure to build additional VM's, integrated
    in IcedTea.
  * Stop building the openjdk-6-source-files package.
  * README.Debian: Document using the different VM's.
  * Use GCC-4.3 on sparc, ICE with GCC-4.4.
  * Fix problem with the ARM assembler interpreter, when executing a 'new'
    bytecode with a double on the top of the stack (Edward Nevill).
  * Run the testsuite for the zero build on ix86 architectures.

Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 23:37:42 +0200
Changed-By: Matthias Klose <email address hidden>
Maintainer: OpenJDK Team <email address hidden>

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no information why ...

the build-depends are:

Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), autotools-dev, lzma, m4, lsb-release, wget, zip, unzip, sharutils, gawk, pkg-config, procps, automake, autoconf, ant, libtool, g++-4.4 [!sparc], g++-4.3 [sparc] ecj-gcj [amd64 hppa i386 ia64 lpia powerpc m68k mips mipsel sparc s390], gcj-jdk [amd64 hppa i386 ia64 lpia powerpc m68k mips mipsel sparc s390], openjdk-6-jdk (>= 6b14) [alpha armel], openjdk-6-jdk (>= 6b16~pre1-0ubuntu2) [armel], libxtst-dev, libxi-dev, libxt-dev, libxp-dev, libxaw7-dev, libxrender-dev, libcups2-dev, libasound2-dev, libfreetype6-dev, libxalan2-java, rhino, liblcms1-dev, libxinerama-dev, libffi-dev [!amd64 !i386 !lpia !sparc], libjpeg62-dev, libpng12-dev, libgif-dev, zlib1g-dev, libgtk2.0-dev, xulrunner-1.9-dev, fastjar (>= 2:0.96-0ubuntu2), libpulse-dev (>= 0.9.12), pulseaudio (>= 0.9.12), mauve, xvfb, autoconf, automake, xauth, xfonts-base

yes, there's a missing comma. please add the hint to the reject message.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Launchpad just asks apt to parse the field, and the string "Problem parsing dependency" comes from apt. Wouldn't it be better to fix this in apt? It's in a position to know how far its parser got before failing. Dealing with this in Launchpad would involve duplicating quite a bit of code from apt, and wouldn't benefit any other users of libapt-pkg doing the same kind of thing.