Package: reprotest Version: 0.3.2 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
It would be good to make diffoscope optional. Sometimes for various reasons a developer might want to run reprotest inside a container/chroot/environment where they don't want to install diffoscope. Then reprotest should save the build output so the user can copy it to a system that does have diffoscope. For example I have access to a remote jessie machine, so I have to run all my builds inside a schroot already. Inside the schroot I run reprotest with a null virtual server, but I don't want diffoscope's dependencies to possibly affect the build. (Yes I could use another schroot inside the schroot but I have a feeling this wouldn't work so well and I'd rather not spend time debugging it. Also this would not be possible on Debian porter machines where we don't have root to be able to set up the inner schroots.) X -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages reprotest depends on: ii apt-utils 1.3.1 ii diffoscope 62 ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.10 ii procps 2:3.3.12-2 ii python3-debian 0.1.29 ii python3-pkg-resources 28.0.0-1 pn python3:any <none> Versions of packages reprotest recommends: ii autodep8 0.8 ii disorderfs 0.5.1-1 ii locales-all 2.24-5 ii qemu-system 1:2.7+dfsg-3 ii qemu-utils 1:2.7+dfsg-3 ii schroot 1.6.10-2+b1 reprotest suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
