8 Jun 2006 (Thu)

08:47:10 # Life To those who care about build-dependency being satisfied in clean target. pbuilder already does some reasonable work with pdebuild --use-pdebuild-internal, which is not default (it's still lacking some features). If pbuilder starts unconditionally checking for build-dependencies outside of chroot for building source packages, that's bad news, because you need to have all the dependencies installed outside of chroot. You either have them installed because you have done debuild before, or haven't since you can't build it outside of chroot (running stable Debian release, maybe). So it's a bad idea either way to let pdebuild satisfy build dependencies outside of chroot. pdebuild --use-pdebuild-internal solves that problem by building the source package inside the chroot.

09:17:39 # Life dpkg-architecture extensions. -i and -e are apparently added very recently. Hmm..