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and subject line Bug#1136170: fixed in devscripts 2.26.9
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regarding Best practice packaging tooling missing from Recommends
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Package: devscripts
Version: 2.26.7
Hi!
I'm at a "packaging best practice" workshop at MiniDebConf Hamburg. I
observed the speaker recommending that everyone start by installing the
following packages: devscripts, git-buildpackage, sbuild, mmdebstrap.
Indeed this is best practice. It strikes me however that this step
shouldn't be necessary, and available by default in one step for any new
contributor.
Depending on your view, either:
1) `apt install devscripts` should be sufficient, picking up everything
that isn't a strict dependency via Recommends; or
2) perhaps devscripts isn't the right package, but there should be some
metapackage that has this effect.
Would you be willing to accept to add git-buildpackage, sbuild and
mmdebstrap to Recommends in devscripts and then continue updating this
as best practice changes, in addition to things that are Recommends as
the result of specific scripts?
>From a quick scan I believe this would also fix bugs 1087427, 1081839
and 1053755 but I have not verified this.
Thanks,
Robie
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Source: devscripts
Source-Version: 2.26.9
Done: Jochen Sprickerhof <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
devscripts, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Jochen Sprickerhof <[email protected]> (supplier of updated devscripts
package)
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Date: Sun, 17 May 2026 16:33:30 +0200
Source: devscripts
Architecture: source
Version: 2.26.9
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Devscripts Maintainers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Jochen Sprickerhof <[email protected]>
Closes: 1103647 1136170 1136494 1136742
Changes:
devscripts (2.26.9) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Team upload.
.
[ Holger Levsen ]
* Add sbuild to recommends. Thanks to Robie Basak. Closes: #1136170
.
[ Jochen Sprickerhof ]
* debootsnap: clear APT::Default-Release (Closes: #1136742)
* Build depend on procps for pidof (used in test/test_uscan_git)
(Closes: #1136494)
.
[ Christopher Bock ]
* bts.bash_completion update available tags
.
[ Carles Pina i Estany ]
* Added recommended dependency to diffstat (used by "debdiff --diffstat")
.
[ Jeremy Bícha ]
* Add Build-Depends: docbook-xml
.
[ Agustin Martin ]
* grep-excuses: Fix wide character in print at line 364 (Closes: #1103647)
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