On Tue, 15 Aug 2023, Shengjing Zhu wrote:
So why would you install dh-golang? It's not listed in golang-1.21's
Build-Depends.
To build other packages. Building Go and building packages that use Go
on the same system doesn't seem weird to me. Is your view that source
packages only need to be buildable in isolated chroots/containers that
have just essential and their build-deps installed?
While the policy manual doesn't seem to be explicit on this, the
existence of the Build-Conflicts field seems to imply that the
expectation is any breakage is explicitly declared there, and would
provide a reasonable solution to this IMO.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=824495 has a long
discussion on the merits of different possible policy stances on this.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2019/02/msg00204.html continues
that discussion, though some of the mesages were also CC'd to the bug.
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