severity 1068809 normal reassign 1068809 ftp.debian.org thanks
Dear Debian ftpmasters: We (the participants in this bug) believe that the package dh-buildinfo can be removed now, and we request that it's removed. The rationale for deprecating dh-buildinfo is explained in a very detailed way in the first message of this bug which I'm now reassigning. The reason that dh-buildinfo can be removed now is that debhelper maintainers agreed to add a "Provides: dh-buildinfo" so that this deprecation can happen sooner. Now, packages having dh-buildinfo in their build-depends will either satisfy the build-dependency with debhelper, if it's not versioned, or will fail with unsatisfiable build-depends if it's versioned, because debhelper has a conflicts: dh-buildinfo. As a result, none of the 272 packages still having dh-buildinfo in their build-depends will actually try to install the real dh-buildinfo when being built, and this is why we consider that the package can be removed now. All the required bugs have been filed, and the few packages which FTBFS with the new setup (where debhelper provides dh-buildinfo) have a trivial patch available in the bug report (which is RC because of the FTBFS status). Thanks for your consideration. And also thanks to everybody who helped to make this possible.
