Bug#1068809: Any reason to (Build-)Depend from dh-buildinfo in ecbuild?

[Holger Levsen]

Hi Andreas,

On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 11:04:04AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Today dh-buildinfo appeared as a candidate for the Bug of the Day[1].
> In bug #1068809 the reporter suggested to "consider deprecating and
> removing the package".  For me the reasons are perfectly valid and
> thus I checked the rdepends of this package.  I wonder whether you
> might like to remove dh-buildinfo from ecbuild (Build-)Depends to
> enable the removal of this package.

YES. :)

I've NMUed cdbs already last Sunday and dropped all occurances of
dh-buildinfo from it, so today there are only 3 packages left,
which depend on dh-buildinfo:
- ecbuild
- haskell-devscripts
- debian-multimedia

I do intend to file bugs against those and then NMU as needed to,
and then ask for the removal of dh-buildinfo from unstable.

#1088144 has some more background info and most importantly,
dpkg since 2016 creates .buildinfo files for *all* packages,
while dh-buildinfo is used by only 5% of the archive (mostly
haskell packages and those using cdbs).

I'd like to have dh-buildinfo removed from the archive by the
end of this year.


-- 
cheers,
	Holger

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