Comment 8 for bug 276151

On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 16:20 +0000, Paul Gevers wrote:
> > You said you were working on getting a package in to your PPA and then
> > you would test it. I just wanted to make sure you had done that, and
> > hadn't found any problems.
> >
> > Should this package still be synced, or do you have patch that needs
> > to be applied?
>
> I am not sure. The package did not build straight in my PPA, but
> reversing the dependencies of the binary target in debian/rules worked.
> However, as I understand it there is no guarantee on the order that
> dependencies are invoked. And I don't know if the build environment in
> the real Ubuntu works the same as in the PPA, so it *might* be
> considered a patch...
>
> What would be the best is if the binary-indep target would be build
> independent of the binary-arch target. For instance, in my PPA the amd64
> build did not build the binary-indep target, so it did not have any
> problems, but building i386 the indep target was build at the same time
> as the arch target and that is where things went wrong. (Basically the
> debian/files get removed when the binary-indep target is build so if the
> arch target is build first, that information is lost).

Yeah, this might just be a bug in the package, as Ubuntu does things
slightly differently to Debian here.

Thanks,

James