Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.18.19
I think this changes is risky:
* Stop emitting Built-For-Profiles from dpkg-gencontrol. The information
is already provided in .buildinfo files, and including it in the binary
packages makes them unreproducible even when the profile used would not
alter its contents. Closes: #831524
This significantly reduces the amount of information available to
understand why a .deb might be the way it is. It also inhibits the
ability of the archive to reject oddly-built binaries.
IMO this ought to have been dealt with properly, by introducing the
concept of dirty and clean build-profiles, as suggested before on
debian-devel.
This change ought to have been discussed more widely, I think.
Thanks for your attention.
Ian.
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