[Xapian-discuss] Debian Package Installation

[R. Mattes]

On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 20:57 +0000, James Aylett wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 08:08:32PM +0000, Olly Betts wrote:
> 
> > > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> > >   libxapian8: Depends: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.0) but 1:3.4.3-13 is to be installed
> > > E: Sorry, broken packages
> > 
> > Richard built the debian package on a box running Debian unstable, which
> > unfortunately makes it uninstallable on a Debian stable box because the
> > two versions have incompatible compilers at present:
> > 
> > http://www.xapian.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66
> > 
> > You can probably just build and install the package from the debian
> > source archive with apt-src, but I've not tried it (my Debian box runs
> > unstable too).
> 
> Once ixion moves back up to stable, presumably we could run automatic
> checks on this kind of thing?

Hmm, the way i do it over here: use pbuilder. Taht way the package is
build in a clean environment with only the build-depends (and base)
installed. This triggers build dependency bug pretty fast. And since
all of this happens in a changerooted environment it's possible to build
packages for different releases (i do Debian stable/testing and Ubuntu
Breezy). 

 Cheers + happy new year 

   Ralf Mattes
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