Creating a patch

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 12:07:15AM -0700, Michael S. Fischer wrote:

> I'm about ready to upload my patch to go with my bug submission for the
> 'host' package; part of the patch would be an additional entry to the
> Build-Depends: line of debian/control.  However, I'm having difficulty
> testing my change to control: dpkg-buildpackage -D seems to build the package
> whether I put the real dependent package entry (in this case bind-dev (>=
> 8.2.4-1)) in there or I put a bogus entry in there (bind-dev (>= 8.2.4-2)).

Note that -D is the default in recent dpkg-dev.  Did you try running
dpkg-checkbuilddeps by hand?

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 - mdz