Martin Pitt writes ("[Bug 1175557] Re: adt-run fulfills dependencies with 
--built-tree contrary to the manpage"):
> oh, you are listening here, nice!

Sure.  To be honest I'm not doing very much but I can try to clear up
any misunderstandings and help explain the tangles in my code...

> I'd appreciate if you could review
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git;a=commitdiff;h=0dcce04
> ; I'm fairly sure that this reflects how adt-run currently works, and
> that it mostly makes sense that way. If you think the behaviour is
> actually wrong, and the previous manpage was right, please let me know.

Your new text is generally right.  The --apt-source option postdates
me so I don't know that your text for that is right.  The old text for
--built-tree is wrong.

| .TP
| .BR -B " | " --no-built-binaries
|-Specifies that all built binaries should be ignored completely;
|-equivalent to
|+Specifies that all built binaries from source packages should be ignored
|+completely, and dependencies are satisfied with packages from the archive. 
Note
|+that packages still get built if a test requires
|+\fBbuild-needed\fR. Equivalent to

Of course it isn't quite right to say "from the archive"; they might
come from *.deb command line arguments too.

Regards,
Ian.

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