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

[Holger Levsen]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 12:00:40PM +0000, Bill Allombert wrote:
> Upload a version of dh_buildinfo that does nothing be output a warning
> 'warning: db_buildinfo is obsolete, please remove from Build-Depends'.

I certainly wouldn't mind anyone doing this.

(I also doubt many people would see and act on this warning. dh-buildinfo
was practially useless the last 8 years and noone noticed or acted.)

> This would gives time to maintainers to fix the issue before a MBF.

And whats the real benefit of this? I mean, MBF is a mass bug filing,
and yeah, a package would receive one less bug report. (Which I see as a
small benefit, but not a real benefit, which would block *me* from
filing 311 bugs now^wsoon.)

> Add a lintian warning if there is none already ?

I'd applaud that.


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