update-sourcedeps1

Usage

Version

This man page documents the packaged version of sbuild. This version is maintained by the buildd-tools project developers on Alioth (https://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools/).

Overview

update-sourcedeps updates the source-dependencies-* files from buildd.debian.org/andrea/. These dependencies are used by sbuild to calculate the Build-Depends for those packages that don't include them—mainly potato, and increasingly fewer woody, packages. update-sourcedeps also contains arch-specific and package-specific patches that are applied by sbuild after the source is unpacked. These patches work around temporary compiler bugs and other transient problems so a package can still be autobuilt and the change can be easily reverted without bothering the package maintainer.

update-sourcedeps is normally called by buildd. Since sbuild is used by itself here, update-sourcedeps must to be called manually (or not). The source-dependencies-* files aren't required by sbuild but are very helpful if you're autobuilding a lot of packages.

Note

Before you file bugs for build failures be sure you understand the difference between src-deps and build-deps and also how the src-dep patches work.

Warning

Inappropriate settings in your ~/.wgetrc can cause problems. The WGETRC environment variable can be used to redirect .wgetrc.