On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 03:42:38AM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Can't we just annotate the foo-source binary package in some way - it > should be pretty clear to the maintainer that he produces such a > "special" package. Then for building other packages B-D-ing on the > "special" package we could have a helper that looks for "annotated" > installed build-depends and generates Built-Using if needed.
This fails for the case where a particular package tries to do something extremely weird which means it can't use shared libraries, and therefore must use the static versions of library packages. I suppose that package could then pass some option to dh_builtusing to specify that needs to consider more than just the annotated packages, but otoh you then wouldn't want that to result in it also declaring a built-using on debhelper, autotools-dev, and a bunch of other things that are irrelevant. This route gets fairly messy fairly quickly, I'm afraid. -- Copyshops should do vouchers. So that next time some bureaucracy requires you to mail a form in triplicate, you can mail it just once, add a voucher, and save on postage. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130212194630.gj11...@grep.be
