Bug#903292: blends-dev must depend on bc

[Holger Levsen]

Package: blends-dev
Version: 0.7.0
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

after upgrading to blends-dev 0.7.0 I got this when trying to run "make
dist" in debian-edu.git
:

debian-work:~/Projects/debian-edu/git/debian-edu$ schroot make dist
/bin/sh: 1: bc: not found
expr: syntax error
rm -f debian-edu-tasks.desc debian/control
make -f debian/rules get-orig-source
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/user/Projects/debian-edu/git/debian-edu'
debian/rules:8: warning: overriding recipe for target 'override_dh_install'
/usr/share/blends-dev/rules:36: warning: ignoring old recipe for target 'override_dh_install'
make -f /usr/share/blends-dev/Makefile debian-edu-tasks.desc
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/user/Projects/debian-edu/git/debian-edu'
/bin/sh: 1: bc: not found
expr: syntax error
/usr/share/blends-dev/blend-gen-control -u -r "unstable" -S -t
^CError in function stop
Traceback (most recent call last):

(at which point I pressed ctrl-c...)

After installing bc in the sid schroot running "make dist" worked as usual.

[Debian Bug Tracking System]

Your message dated Sun, 08 Jul 2018 15:50:21 +0000
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and subject line Bug#903292: fixed in blends 0.7.1
has caused the Debian Bug report #903292,
regarding blends-dev must depend on bc
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[Lars Kruse]

Package: blends-dev
Version: 0.7.0
Followup-For: Bug #903292

Dear Maintainer,

instead of adding the dependency on "bc", its usage could also be
replaced with a portable shell substitution:

https://salsa.debian.org/blends-team/blends/merge_requests/1

Cheers,
Lars

[Andreas Tille]

Dear Lars,

there was a race condition between your patch and my upload. I've
reverted the bc dependency in Git after merging your patch. For the
moment I do not see any reason for another upload for this change only.

Thanks in any case for your hint

Andreas.

[Lars Kruse]

Hi Andreas,


Am Sun, 8 Jul 2018 18:09:10 +0200

there was a race condition between your patch and my upload. [..]

what a nice indication for an overwhelmingly responsive package maintainer :)

Thank you!

Cheers,
Lars

[Andreas Tille]

Post by Lars Kruse

there was a race condition between your patch and my upload. [..]

what a nice indication for an overwhelmingly responsive package maintainer :)

Thanks - but its also a nice indication for new contributors which
is really welcome.

Kind regards

Andreas.