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New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>.
(Wed, 03 Jun 2015 08:36:10 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
Subject: lintian: proprosed changes to the Build-profiles tags
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2015 10:18:22 +0200
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.31
Severity: normal
Prosed changes to
* restriction-formula-without-versioned-dpkg-dev-dependency
* restriction-formula-with-debhelper-without-debhelper-version
based on a chat with helmut over IRC:
"""
08:11 < helmut> nthykier: i think the tags are overbroad.
08:12 < helmut> nthykier: why should the usage of Build-Profiles require versioned dpkg-dev? older dpkg-dev just ignores the header
08:12 < helmut> nthykier: next, why should build profiles in Build-Depends require a recent dpkg-dev? either it is recent, then things are ok, or it isn't then it fails to parse Build-Depends.
08:13 < helmut> nthykier: in neither case do we gain anything by adding that dependency
08:13 < helmut> nthykier: the former also applies to debhelper. the latter less so.
08:16 < helmut> nthykier: let me backpedal a slight bit: if a binary package section has Build-Profiles with positive profiles (i.e. not enabled by default), then one does need both versioned deps.
[...]
08:45 < helmut> nthykier: 1) do not add versioned dpkg-dev solely for using build profiles in Build-Depends (as dpkg would fail to parse anyway)
08:45 < helmut> nthykier: 2) do not add versioned deps for using only negative profiles in Build-Profiles headers
"""
Subject: Re: Bug#787597: lintian: proprosed changes to the Build-profiles tags
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 10:46:23 +0200
* Niels Thykier <[email protected]>, 2015-06-03, 10:18:
>08:12 < helmut> nthykier: next, why should build profiles in
>Build-Depends require a recent dpkg-dev? either it is recent, then
>things are ok, or it isn't then it fails to parse Build-Depends.
Such versioned B-D on dpkg-dev is not useful for dpkg-dev itself; but it
might be useful for humans who are trying to figure out why the package
cannot be built.
--
Jakub Wilk
Changed Bug title to 'lintian: Proposed changes to the Build-Profiles tags' from 'lintian: proprosed changes to the Build-profiles tags'.
Request was from Felix Lechner <[email protected]>
to [email protected].
(Sun, 15 Dec 2019 16:27:05 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
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