On Tue, 2026-06-30 at 15:52 +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > * Benjamin Drung <[email protected]> [260630 15:39]: > > Ubuntu does not want to build udebs, because udebs are not used in > > Ubuntu. dpkg was patched to set "DEB_BUILD_PROFILE=noudeb" by default > > when building a package for Ubuntu. This behavior can be overridden by > > setting the build profile "!noudeb", but "!noudeb" is not valid build > > profile name according to the discussion in > > https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/730 > > > > I like to discuss this topic with the wider audience to come up with a > > clean and acceptable solution for Ubuntu. > [..] > > What are your thoughts? Do you have a better solution? > > Why was this done by patching dpkg, instead of configuring the > Ubuntu buildds to always set the noudeb profile?
I don't know. I found this initial bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad-buildd/+bug/1884836 > It seems patching dpkg causes more problems than it solves? The benefit of patching dpkg is that users building local .deb package for Ubuntu will get the same results as building on the Launchpad build farm. -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
