[PATCH] Debian: Missing build dependency: subversion

Hi,

the Debian package of flashrom misses the build dependency on
subversion in its control file. Subversion is not installed when
choosing "Standard system" and "Desktop system" with tasksel.

I tried to build flashrom on a freshly installed Debian unstable
machine (alpha) and I couldn't check-out the source because of the
missing subversion.

Adrian

[Maciej Pijanka]

On Fri, 02 Apr 2010, [e-mail] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the Debian package of flashrom misses the build dependency on
> subversion in its control file. Subversion is not installed when
> choosing "Standard system" and "Desktop system" with tasksel.
>
> I tried to build flashrom on a freshly installed Debian unstable
> machine (alpha) and I couldn't check-out the source because of the
> missing subversion.

maybe we should rather patch flashrom build system so it will build without
subversion instead?
> Adrian

Maciej

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[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Hi Adrian,

On 02.04.2010 20:17, [e-mail] wrote:
> the Debian package of flashrom misses the build dependency on
> subversion in its control file. Subversion is not installed when
> choosing "Standard system" and "Desktop system" with tasksel.
>
> I tried to build flashrom on a freshly installed Debian unstable
> machine (alpha) and I couldn't check-out the source because of the
> missing subversion.

The flashrom tarballs at http://qa.coreboot.org/snapshots/ shouldn't
need subversion, and we generally recommend to use those tarballs for
packaging.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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[Uwe Hermann]

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 08:17:38PM +0200, [e-mail] wrote:
> the Debian package of flashrom misses the build dependency on
> subversion in its control file.

Hm, don't think so.
> Subversion is not installed when
> choosing "Standard system" and "Desktop system" with tasksel.
>
> I tried to build flashrom on a freshly installed Debian unstable
> machine (alpha) and I couldn't check-out the source because of the
> missing subversion.

You should not checkout the source (via svn) to build the Debian
package. The package as it's available in Debian does not require
subversion as build-dependency. Only if you do a manual checkout and
build of flashrom you need subversion, but that's unrelated to the
Debian package.

I just tested with the current version in unstable and it builds fine
without subversion installed:

 $ dpkg --purge subversion
 $ apt-get source flashrom
 $ cd flashrom-0.9.1+r946
 $ dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot


Uwe.
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