Debian Bug report logs - #894732
mk-build-deps: add build profiles support to filter build dependencies to include/install

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Raphaël Hertzog <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: mk-build-deps: add build profiles support to filter build dependencies to include/install

Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 18:37:48 +0200

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.18.1
Severity: wishlist

It would be nice if we could pass a "-P profile[,...]" option to
mk-build-deps to specify which build profiles should be enabled
(I chose -P to match the choice made in dpkg-checkbuilddeps)

Thus "mk-build-deps -P nocheck,nodoc debian/control" would not include
packages that are only needed to build the documentation and to run the
tests.

See man deb-src-control for the syntax of the build profiles. You can see
build profiles annotations in python-django for example:

Build-Depends: ..., python3-bcrypt <!nocheck>, python3-docutils <!nodoc>, ...

It's not yet documented in policy but you can find some information here:
https://wiki.debian.org/BuildProfileSpec

Note that the perl module Dpkg::Deps (from libdpkg-perl) has support for
build profiles.

Cheers,
  Raphaël Hertzog.

Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Samuel Thibault <[email protected]>

To: Raphaël Hertzog <[email protected]>, [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#894732: mk-build-deps: add build profiles support to filter build dependencies to include/install

Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:17:14 +0200

Raphaël Hertzog, le mar. 03 avril 2018 18:37:48 +0200, a ecrit:
> It would be nice if we could pass a "-P profile[,...]" option to
> mk-build-deps to specify which build profiles should be enabled
> (I chose -P to match the choice made in dpkg-checkbuilddeps)

Seconded :)

Samuel

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