Bug#988964: please demote diffoscope to Recommends

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On 2021-05-21, John Scott wrote:
> On my system, reprotest has the following Depends/Recommends:
> Depends: diffoscope (>= 112~), python3-distro, python3-rstr, python3:any, python3-debian, apt-utils, libdpkg-perl, procps, python3-pkg-resources
> Recommends: disorderfs, faketime, locales-all, sudo
>
> Reprotest should really recommend Diffoscope so that users don't need
> to install it whom only want to check if packages are reproducible;
> this is what the --no-diffoscope argument is for.
>
> I would send a Merge Request, but I frankly can't figure out where this
> comes from. The applicable section in debian/control says
> Depends: ${python3:Depends},
>  python3-debian,
>  apt-utils,
>  libdpkg-perl,
>  procps,
>  python3-pkg-resources,
>  python3-rstr,
>  ${misc:Depends}
> Recommends:
>  diffoscope (>= 112~),
>  disorderfs,
>  faketime,
>  locales-all,
>  sudo,
>
> so my only guess is that Diffoscope gets pulled into
> ${python3:Depends}?

Yes, just confirmed that it gets added through python3:Depends.

So, I presume it will require mangling python3:Depends, or adjusting the
code to convince the pybuild/dh_python/etc that it doesn't belong there.

live well,
  vagrant
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 227 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/reproducible-builds/attachments/20210521/e50fc34f/attachment.sig>