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Hi! On Sat, 2022-11-12 at 14:00:38 +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > Package: dpkg-dev > Version: 1.21.9 > Severity: wishlist > I often find myself[1] in need of a tool that, given a source package, > prints a list of its build depends, given an architecture, a build > profile, and so on. There was a bug filed requesting adding custom output format support (#214566) but it was closed “recently”. I think there might be some value in that, but not for the intended use the submitters seemed to want it. I'd be interested to know how you'd want to use this new output/option as from the PoC script you provide it is not obvious to me, as it prints both build-depends and build-conflicts in an indistinguishable way, and it includes version constraints and alternative dependencies. > Would it be possible to add a way to print the unfiltered list? Anything is possible, I guess my concern is whether this might create confusion, or whether this is better solved already by some other tool? Or if there is no workable alternative, finding the right semantics to add this. > Ideally, it can become a --print-depends/--print-conflicts option to > dpkg-checkbuilddeps, instead of a separate tool. Unfortunately my > perl-foo is too rusty to pretend I could propose a competent patch :/ I don't mind implementing it at all, but I'd like to understand what this is needed for. :) Thanks, Guillem
