Hi, On 2025-06-03 22:26, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Sat, May 31, 2025 at 01:58:33PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > > I have been pointed out at dh-builtusing, which is another way to > > achieve the same result. I have attached a patch with that alternative, > > at the end it's mostly a question of taste. > > Thanks for this patch. Note that you need to add dh-builtusing to the > Build-Depends (not just dh-sequence-builtusing) so that automated > builders that use a minimal build-chroot (i.e., sbuild) knows that
That should not be the case, or it's a bug in the builder that should be reported. At least sbuild is able to handle that correctly. > they need to install dh-builtusing. It's also helpful for users who > are confused why dpkg-buildpackage doesn't work. That's indeed can be confusing at a first glance. That said both apt install and apt satisfy are able to determine that dh-sequence-builtusing is provided by dh-builtusing. > The other problem with using dh-builtusing is that it is only > available in Debian trixie. So if you want to be able to build > e2fsprogs on Debian stable or oldstable, using dh-builtusing will make > life very difficult wanting to build e2fsprogs for Debian stable, or > Ubuntu LTS. You are fully correct. The possibility of backports is definitely a good reason to not use dh-sequence-builtusing. Regards Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://aurel32.net
