control: fixed -1 1.17.2-1

On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 15:54:47 +0200 Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> wrote:
> Package: cdbs
> Followup-For: Bug #963347
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> Control: affects -1 =
> Control: reassign -1 src:gst-plugins-ugly1.0 1.16.2-2
> 
> cdbs provides templates for packages to include.
> gst-plugins-ugly1.0 also build-depends on automake
> even though it is called through a cdbs template.
> 
> cdbs offers an optional mechanism to help resolve build-dependencies,
> but does not itself build-depend on the tools used in its templates.
> If that was the case, then cdbs would depend on openjdk and php-dev
> and cmake and a lot of other tools, which would not be helpful.
> 
> Concretely, src:gst-plugins-ugly1.0 uses the rules/utils.mk template
> and need to either a) declare needed build-dependencies (which indeed has
> changed over time¹), or supress unused parts (notably licensecheck),
> or stop include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/utils.mk.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 

yep, it helped thanks!

in the meanwhile, the package in experimental moved to debhelper, so this bug 
is "fixed" in another way...

G.

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