Package: devscripts Version: 2.20.5 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
as mentioned in the policy [1], d/control can have a Build-Depends-Indep field to specify (additional) dependencies for building the arch:all packages of a source package. 'mk-build-deps' has a '--build-indep' flag, that seems to be targetted at this use-case (building only arch:all) packages, but in it's current form I think it is of little use. as the mk-build-deps(1) mentions, the '--build-indep' flag generates a > package which only depends on the source package's Build-Depends-Indep > dependencies however, as explained in [1], the build-dependencies is more like: - for building "arch:any", install 'Build-Depends' + 'Build-Depends-Arch' - for building "arch:all", install 'Build-Depends' + 'Build-Depends-Indep' - for building all packages, install 'Build-Depends' + 'Build-Depends-Arch' + 'Build-Depends-Indep' now, depending on it's invocation 'mk-build-deps' will create a dependency package for a subset of the Build-Depends: - 'mk-build-deps': depends on 'Build-Depends' + 'Build-Depends-Arch' + 'Build-Depends-Indep' - 'mk-build-deps --build-dep': depends on 'Build-Depends' + 'Build-Depends-Arch' - 'mk-build-deps --build-indep': depends on 'Build-Depends-Indep' as you can see, the invocation of 'mk-build-deps' (without flags) matches the target of building all packages (both arch:any and arch:all). the invocation of 'mk-build-deps --build-dep' matches the target of building only arch:any packages. however, the invocation of 'mk-build-deps --build-indep' does NOT match the target of building only arch:all packages (as the 'Build-Depends' is missing) i'm not sure whether this is actually a bugin 'mk-build-deps', but since it is documented in the mangpage, it probably is not. however, I don't see any use in installing Build-Depends-Indep only, so I don't know what the '--build-indep' flag is intended for. if it is not a bug (and there *is* a use-case for the flag as is), I would suggest to add a new flag to create a dependency package targetted at building arch:all binary packages. in the end, i would like to have the salsa-ci pipeline "test-build-all" behave more like the buildds, and make it only install the packages required to build the arch:all portions (and leave out Build-Depends-Arch). since the "test-build-all" pipeline currently depends on 'mk-build-deps' i need your co-operation ;-) thanks for considering. PS: i haven't checked the situtation of Build-Conflicts-*, but it should behave accordingly. [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-sourcebinarydeps -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages devscripts depends on: ii dpkg-dev 1.20.7.1 ii fakeroot 1.25.3-1.1 ii file 1:5.39-3 ii gnupg 2.2.20-1 ii gpgv 2.2.20-1 ii libc6 2.31-9 ii libfile-dirlist-perl 0.05-2 ii libfile-homedir-perl 1.006-1 ii libfile-touch-perl 0.11-1 ii libfile-which-perl 1.23-1 ii libipc-run-perl 20200505.0-1 ii libmoo-perl 2.004004-1 ii libwww-perl 6.52-1 ii patchutils 0.4.2-1 ii perl 5.32.0-6 ii python3 3.9.1-1 ii sensible-utils 0.0.14 ii wdiff 1.2.2-2+b1 Versions of packages devscripts recommends: ii apt 2.1.17 ii curl 7.74.0-1 ii dctrl-tools 2.24-3+b1 ii debian-keyring 2020.12.24 ii dput 1.1.0 ii equivs 2.3.1 ii libdistro-info-perl 0.24 ii libdpkg-perl 1.20.7.1 ii libencode-locale-perl 1.05-1.1 ii libgit-wrapper-perl 0.048-1 ii libgitlab-api-v4-perl 0.25-2 ii liblist-compare-perl 0.55-1 ii liblwp-protocol-https-perl 6.10-1 ii libsoap-lite-perl 1.27-1 ii libstring-shellquote-perl 1.04-1 ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1 ii liburi-perl 5.05-1 ii licensecheck 3.0.47-1 ii lintian 2.104.0 ii man-db 2.9.3-2 ii patch 2.7.6-7 ii pristine-tar 1.49 ii python3-apt 2.1.7 ii python3-debian 0.1.39 ii python3-magic 2:0.4.15-5 ii python3-requests 2.25.1+dfsg-2 ii python3-unidiff 0.5.5-2 ii python3-xdg 0.26-3 ii strace 5.10-1 ii unzip 6.0-26 ii wget 1.21-1+b1 ii xz-utils 5.2.5-1.0 Versions of packages devscripts suggests: pn adequate <none> ii at 3.1.23-1.1 ii autopkgtest 5.15 pn bls-standalone <none> ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20180807cvs-2 ii build-essential 12.9 pn check-all-the-things <none> pn cvs-buildpackage <none> ii debhelper 13.3.1 pn devscripts-el <none> ii diffoscope 164 pn disorderfs <none> ii dose-extra 5.0.1-16 pn duck <none> pn faketime <none> ii gnuplot 5.4.1+dfsg1-1 ii gnuplot-qt [gnuplot] 5.4.1+dfsg1-1 pn how-can-i-help <none> ii libauthen-sasl-perl 2.1600-1.1 pn libdbd-pg-perl <none> ii libfile-desktopentry-perl 0.22-2 pn libnet-smtps-perl <none> pn libterm-size-perl <none> ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-1 pn libyaml-syck-perl <none> ii mailutils [mailx] 1:3.11.1-4 pn mmdebstrap <none> pn mozilla-devscripts <none> pn mutt <none> ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:8.4p1-3 pn piuparts <none> pn postgresql-client <none> ii quilt 0.66-2.1 ii ratt 0.0~git20180127.c44413c-2+b10 pn reprotest <none> pn svn-buildpackage <none> pn w3m <none> -- no debconf information
