On 28/09/12 21:55, Guillem Jover wrote: > Control: severity -1 wishlist > > Hi! > > On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 20:58:13 +0100, Nicholas Bamber wrote: >> Package: dpkg-dev >> Version: 1.16.8 >> Severity: normal >> >> Debian Policy version 3.9.4 adds support for the Built-Using field. >> This field can be different on each build run and so is analagous to >> the shlibs fields added via dpkg-shlibdeps. > > Even if it might seem so, it's really not like those substvars, > because the values to put into Built-Using cannot be easily computed > automatically (if at all). See previous discussion in #653575. > >> The differences are: >> 1.) we are talking about static libraries rather than shared libraries > > Which cannot be reliably inferred from stripped binaries, in contrast > to shared libraries. > >> 2.) we need the source package rather than the binary package. > > Which can already be easily retrieved through the dpkg-query > source:Package and source:Version virtual fields. > > As such, I'm going to be closing this request if there's no additional > feedback proposing a workable and elegant solution to this. > > thanks, > guillem
Guillem, Thanks for responing. I think I can come up with a proposed mechanism. I'd be grateful if you'd allow me some time as it does not need to be in Debian before Wheezy is released. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org