Hi! On Thu, 2015-11-26 at 12:02:39 +0000, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > Package: dpkg-dev > Version: 1.18.3 > Severity: wishlist
> When I want to generate a dummy build-essential package with equivs, I get > this: > > dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown information field 'Build-Essential' in > input > data in package's section of control info file > > Yet, the official build-essential package has such a field: > > $ apt-cache show build-essential:amd64 | grep '^Build-Ess' > Build-Essential: yes But only on the archive. > So, since it's an "official" field, probably dpkg-gencontrol should > know about it and not issue a warning. Yeah, as mentioned on IRC I don't mind adding support for the field, and even documenting it! But I just want to note that it's only official in that the archive injects the field into the Packages indices. But I don't think this field has ever been discussed anywhere, nor documented. And no official package that is part of the direct build essential set has such field in their source package (AFAIK). Thanks, Guillem
