On Tue, Aug 08, 2023 at 11:35:01AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Aug 08, 2023 at 06:46:38AM -0000, Sune Vuorela wrote: > > On 2023-08-07, Benjamin Drung <bdr...@debian.org> wrote: > > > while working a whole week on fixing failing C/C++ header compilations > > > for armhf time_t [1], I noticed a common pattern: The library -dev > > > packages was missing one or more dependencies on another -dev package. > > > Over 200 -dev packages are affected. > > > > I don't think this is a important problem that some headers might have > > special conditions for use. I'd rather have our developers spend time > > fixing other issues than satisfying this script. > >... > > There are many actual bugs it would catch, that are currently only > caught later manually (sometimes through bug reports from users in > stable). > > There are special cases that might result in false positives. > > Numbers for bugs found and false positives should help determine whether > it should be opt-in or opt-out.
While providing this for packages to use is a great idea, this will have to be opt-in. Imposing this on maintainers has a significant technical and social cost, specially in the case of packages where the defaults don't work correctly, that I am not willing to pay. With regards to supporting different corner cases, autodep8 has a standard interface for packages to provide configuration to the runners, and that is documented under "PACKAGE‐SPECIFIC CONFIGURATION" in the manpage.
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