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-rw-r--r--bitbake/lib/bb/taskdata.py2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/taskdata.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/taskdata.py
index 45f6902ddd..976e0ca1f9 100644
--- a/bitbake/lib/bb/taskdata.py
+++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/taskdata.py
@@ -161,6 +161,8 @@ class TaskData:
ids = []
for dep in task_deps['depends'][task].split():
if dep:
+ if ":" not in dep:
+ bb.msg.fatal(bb.msg.domain.TaskData, "Error, dependency %s does not contain ':' character\n. Task 'depends' should be specified in the form 'packagename:task'" % (depend, fn))
ids.append(((self.getbuild_id(dep.split(":")[0])), dep.split(":")[1]))
self.tasks_idepends[taskid].extend(ids)