Bug#1068809: Any reason to (Build-)Depend from dh-buildinfo in ecbuild?
Alexandre Detiste
alexandre.detiste at gmail.com
Wed Nov 27 11:11:23 GMT 2024
Don't forget the 311 build-depends ...
$ reverse-depends -l -b dh-buildinfo | wc -l
311
These would need a MBF ?
Greetings
Le mer. 27 nov. 2024 à 11:56, Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org> a écrit :
> Hi Andreas,
>
> 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.
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