[Python-modules-team] Bug#837319: Bug#837312: nmu: cdist_4.3.1-1

[Dmitry Bogatov]

> *sigh* I'd reopened and reassiged it if I were you. Not doing that now
> myself because there is also a sponsorship request for cdist at
> https://bugs.debian.org/837319 which will solve this anyways.
>
> Dmitry: Will have a look at #837319. :-)

Fine.

> > While on it I'd investigate why it has such particular needs of a so
> > weird depdency.
>
> That's something the sphinx maintainers should have a look at it as
> they seem to have decided that it's needed, otherwise they probably
> wouldn't have made the effort to implement it.
>
> Since not every sphinx reverse dependency which uses
> ${sphinxdoc:Depends} (about 527 source packages in unstable according
> to [1]) seems to have that rather strict dependency (thanks to Mattia
> for pointing that out on IRC :-), I wonder what makes cdist's package
> build causing that strict dependency.

dh_linktree. Replacing files (images, fonts, ...) with symbolic links
in deduplicate mode.

I could drop it, it would result in increased binary package size and,
what bothers me more, several instances of same file in my /usr.

Sorry, I do not follow very well about situation. I beleive -2
revision should solve issue, isn't it?