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How do I add specify additional apt repositories needed for building a package?

Asked by Eric Butler

Hi there,

I'm trying to build a package that depends on a package only available in gutsy-backports, how can I get launchpad to include this repository when building packages?

Thanks!

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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) said : 		#1

Is this for a PPA? If so, you can only depend on the release, security and updates pockets in the Ubuntu archive.

If you are uploading something to Ubuntu, dependencies on packages in backports are only allowed to be other packages in backports.

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Eric Butler (codebutler) said : 		#2

Thanks for the response.

This was for a PPA. I hope you consider adding support for this (adding arbitrary extra apt repositories) in the future.

Thanks.

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Christian Reis (kiko) said : 		#3

Supporting arbitrary /external/ apt repositories is not on our roadmap; however, being able to build against -proposed and -backports is, and should be provided in initial form for the 1.2.4 release.