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Unmet build dependencies: dh-virtualenv (>= 0.8)

I am trying to combine Debian packaging with self-contained virtualenv based Python deployments following this tutorial using dh-virtualenv.

debian/compat:

9

debian/control:

Source: project
Section: python
Priority: extra
Maintainer: Andrei <foo@bar.com>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), python, dh-virtualenv (>= 0.8)
Standards-Version: 3.9.5

Package: project
Architecture: any
Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.16.1), python2.7 | python2.6, ${misc:Pre-Depends}
Depends: ${python:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
Description: test project

debian/rules:

#!/usr/bin/make -f

%:
  dh $@ --with python-virtualenv

debian/changelog:

project (0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Initial release.

 -- Andrei <foo@bar.com>  Sun, 15 Jan 2017 23:46:39 +0300

After the execution of following command:

dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

I got following message:

dpkg-buildpackage: source package project
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.1.0
dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution unstable
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Andrei <foo@bar.com>
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture amd64
 dpkg-source --before-build project
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: dh-virtualenv (>= 0.8)
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: (Use -d flag to override.)

What am I doing wrong?

Solution

  • You should install dh-virtualenv package from backportsto solve the unmet dependencies , the current version on debian jessie is 0.7 < 0.8 , the backported version is 0.10 > 0.8.

    Edit your sources.list by adding the following line:

    deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main

    then install dh-virtualenv as follows:

    apt-get update
apt-get -t jessie-backports install dh-virtualenv