Hi! On Thu, 2024-11-28 at 01:11:05 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > The attached patch (which I've tried it to be as minimal as possible) > would make dh_buildinfo a no-op, as discussed in this thread. > > This would remove its undesired effects. Most notably, the ones related to > reproducibility pointed out by Holger, where the smallest change > in the build environment makes a package to be different again, > and it would achieve it with mininal fuss, as we would not need > sourceful uploads for hundreds of packages.
I think that would be a nice incremental improvement with immediate benefits, which does not preclude the cleanup that Holger was talking about, which can then run at its own independent course. I think people agreeing with this was more about untangling the concerns, more than not considering the cleanup worthwhile. On Thu, 2024-11-28 at 01:33:12 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > Sorry, I forgot the patch. Here it is. > --- /dev/null > +++ b/debian/dummy_dh_buildinfo > @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ > +#!/bin/sh > +echo "Warning: dh-buildinfo is obsolete, please remove it from Build-Depends" Perhaps using instead the following, would give a bit more visibility to the warning: ,--- dh_buildinfo --- #!/bin/sh PROGNAME=dh_buildinfo . /usr/share/dpkg/sh/dpkg-error.sh setup_colors warning "dh-buildinfo is obsolete, please remove it from Build-Depends" `--- (I've been bothered by the seemingly gratuitous boilerplate required for dpkg-error.sh in the past, but this now made that resurface, so I'm working on reducing it in dpkg git, for future similar usages. :) Thanks, Guillem
