Hi! On Thu, 2016-11-24 at 16:56:05 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.18.15 > Severity: normal
> the subject basically says it all, dpkg should not generate .buildinfo > files for source only uploads, as they are totally pointless for those. Why? I think this has come multiple times now, and I guess this needs to be documented in dpkg itself or a new FAQ entry be added for this. :) The rationale is that, this is still a build, and Build-Depends need to be present, clean gets invoked which might peform non-trivial amounts of work, update stuff, etc before the source package gets built. These might indeed be pointless for the reproducible project, but remember that this request was way older than the reproducible project and dpkg usually serves more general needs. ;) If people just want to build a source package, because they are building with say -nc -S (which implies -d too), then I think in general they might be better served with «dpkg-source -b» instead. > (I'm also not even sure whether you had implemented in most recent > uploads, but I thought I better file this is a bug which you can easily > close, instead of risking to loose this patch, which floated around on > irc: Thanks, but this was implemented on purpose, and I'm inclined to just wontfix and close it. Or are there any strong reasons why people think this is not a good idea? Regards, Guillem
