Bug#958414: Latest equivs version 2.3.0 breaks mk-build-deps

[gregor herrmann]

Control: clone -1 -2
Control: notfound -1 2.3.2
Control: retitle -2 equivs: bring back -d option
Control: severity -2 normal
Control: found -2 2.3.1
Control: notfound -2 2.3.0

On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 10:56:59 +0200, Andrej Shadura wrote:

[going through RC bugs]

>On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 20:52:37 +0200 Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org> wrote:
>>Guillem Jover wrote:
>>> > A maybe a bit safer variant would be to call dpkg-checkbuilddeps
>>> > beforehand and filter out build-essential if it appears. That way
>>> > around it should hurt way less to hardcode the package name.
>>> > You can simply use --ignore-builtin-builddeps. :)
>
>>Argh! It could have been so simple! Thanks!
>>
>>Unfortunately I just uploaded a new equivs version less
>>than a day ago.
>>
>>Will convert this from -d to this anyway with the next upload.
>>
>>Will though probably wait until the current version has been migrated
>>to testing due to the RC bug fix. (Although this is the better fix for
>>that issue.)
>
>Can we bring the -d back? This break a workflow I’ve been depending on 
>for quite a few years.
>
>I use equivs to build empty packages to use in integration tests for 
>OBS. They need to have dependencies between them, but none of them are 
>part of Debian, and none of them are installed in the container that 
>runs the test runner script. With no way to add -d, building of the 
>package always fails.
>
>    : Now create an empty dependent package in the public project
>    cat > public-pkg.equivs <<EOF
>    Package: public-pkg
>    Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12), hidden-pkg
>    EOF
>
>    equivs-build --source public-pkg.equivs

Ok, I guess there is still a bug and an uncertainty how to best deal 
with builddeps, and I also think the RC bug itself, where equivs 
broke software in Debian is fixed, and the remaining issue is a 
separate question; hence doing some bug manipulation with this mail.


Cheers,
gregor

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