Hello fellow Debian people, [Please keep me in CC as I'm not subscribed to -devel]
As the primary maintainer of a header-only C/C++ package, I'm really happy to see the progress in formalizing the use of 'Static-Built-Using' [0] to aid in determining when packages that use header-only libraries [1] need a binNMU rebuild. However I'm concerned about implementing this and I would like to find an automatic solution so that we don't have to manually update every packaged that Build-Depends on a header-only library. While `dh_builtusing`[2] makes this a lot easier, maintainers still have to identify which of their dependencies are header-only libraries, not to mention which of their packages need upgrading. I would like to help extend debhelper to detect these automatically, and add the appropriate 'Static-Built-Using' lines to the binary package control file (DEBIAN/control)[3], so that no effort is required for the maintainers of packages that Build-Depend on header-only libraries Please join me at https://bugs.debian.org/1096114 to discuss and co-ordinate the implementation of an automatic fix. [0] https://bugs.debian.org/1069256 [1] and other situations, see Maytham Alsudany's current proposed policy changes at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=1069256;filename=0001-Require-use-of-Static-Built-Using-to-declare-statica.patch;msg=95 [2] https://manpages.debian.org/testing/dh-builtusing/dh_builtusing.1.en.html [3] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#debian-binary-package-control-files-debian-control Cheers, -- Michael R. Crusoe
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