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has caused the Debian Bug report #1031018,
regarding maint-guide: outdated guidance in 4.1 re. -Indep fields
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Source: maint-guide
Version: 1.2.53
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer-Guide-Maintainers,
maint-guide currently says in section 4.1:
"Source packages which have binary packages with Architecture: any are
rebuilt by the autobuilder. Since this autobuilder procedure installs
only the packages listed in the Build-Depends field before running
debian/rules build (see Section 6.2, “Autobuilder”), the Build-Depends
field needs to list practically all the required packages, and
Build-Depends-Indep is rarely used."
This seems to be outdated, per discussion on IRC #debian-bootstrap:
<equinox> now i'm confused what exactly Build-Depends-Indep: does
<equinox> "Since this autobuilder procedure installs only the packages listed
in the Build-Depends field before running debian/rules build (see Section 6.2,
“Autobuilder”), the Build-Depends field needs to list practically all the
required packages, and Build-Depends-Indep is rarely used."
<equinox> from
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dreq.en.html#control
<equinox> ?!?
<equinox> (before that: "Source packages which have binary packages with
Architecture: any are rebuilt by the autobuilder.")
<helmut> would you file a bug against that? it's outdated:
<helmut> 1) these days autobuiders do build arch:all packages. the wisdom that
they only build any is wrong
<helmut> 2) consequently, autobuilders do instal b-d-i when they do an
indep-only build
Could the docs be updated for those last 2 lines?
Cheers,
-equi
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Version: 1.2.53+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package maint-guide has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1125221
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
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