On 2021-05-21, John Scott wrote:
> On my system, reprotest has the following Depends/Recommends:
> Depends: diffoscope (>= 112~), python3-distro, python3-rstr, python3:any,
> python3-debian, apt-utils, libdpkg-perl, procps, python3-pkg-resources
> Recommends: disorderfs, faketime, locales-all, sudo
>
> Reprotest should really recommend Diffoscope so that users don't need
> to install it whom only want to check if packages are reproducible;
> this is what the --no-diffoscope argument is for.
>
> I would send a Merge Request, but I frankly can't figure out where this
> comes from. The applicable section in debian/control says
> Depends: ${python3:Depends},
> python3-debian,
> apt-utils,
> libdpkg-perl,
> procps,
> python3-pkg-resources,
> python3-rstr,
> ${misc:Depends}
> Recommends:
> diffoscope (>= 112~),
> disorderfs,
> faketime,
> locales-all,
> sudo,
>
> so my only guess is that Diffoscope gets pulled into
> ${python3:Depends}?Yes, just confirmed that it gets added through python3:Depends. So, I presume it will require mangling python3:Depends, or adjusting the code to convince the pybuild/dh_python/etc that it doesn't belong there. live well, vagrant
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