severity 819308 wishlist
tags 819308 + patch
thanks
On Sat, 26 Mar 2016, Hilko Bengen wrote:
> linux-image-* is needed to be able to run the tests which involves
> firing up qemu and a minimal system. This is currently only done on
> i386, amd64. I don't recall any other reason for the build dependency
> at the moment.
(Sorry for the late reply)
The above explanation seems perfect to me. Could we have it in
a README.source file?
I think this is allowed or even encouraged by policy:
Even if the package doesn't fit the above description, maintainers are
encouraged to document in a debian/README.source file any source
package with a particularly complex or unintuitive source layout or
build system (for example, a package that builds the same source
multiple times to generate different binary packages).
Suggested wording in the attached patch (it's basically what you wrote).
(Downgrading to wishlist as this is a documentation bug at most).
Thanks a lot.
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/README.source
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+This package build-depends on linux-image-* to be able to run the
+tests which involves firing up qemu and a minimal system. This is
+currently only done on i386, amd64.
+
+Hilko Bengen <ben...@debian.org>
