On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 11:35:30AM -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
At times, Ubuntu needs to avoid certain build-dependencies because
they would add an unwanted "universe" binary dependency to a "main"
package. In some cases, that is the *only* change Ubuntu makes to the
package. I believe it benefits Debian for Ubuntu and Debian packaging
to be as shared as much as possible.
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1734339
$64k question: does having to maintain some notion of which build
profiles to use for a package (and actually maintaining the build
profile upstream) end up being less effort than a couple of lines of
patch to remove a dependency?
Mike Stone
