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regarding buildah: Should not Recommends: cpp
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Package: buildah
Version: 1.39.3+ds1-1+b1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
buildah binary package has
Recommends: cpp
That must have been a mistake. There is no use of cpp with buildah.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers testing-debug
APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.15.0-rc3 (SMP w/32 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages buildah depends on:
ii golang-github-containers-common 0.62.2+ds1-2
ii libc6 2.41-7
ii libgpgme11t64 1.24.2-1+b1
ii libseccomp2 2.6.0-2
ii libsqlite3-0 3.46.1-3
ii libsubid5 1:4.17.4-1
ii uidmap 1:4.17.4-1
Versions of packages buildah recommends:
ii cpp 4:14.2.0-1
ii fuse-overlayfs 1.14-1+b1
ii runc 1.1.15+ds1-2+b3
Versions of packages buildah suggests:
ii containers-storage 1.57.2+ds1-1+b1
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Witold Baryluk <[email protected]> writes:
> buildah binary package has
>
> Recommends: cpp
>
> That must have been a mistake. There is no use of cpp with buildah.
>From https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/buildah/buildah-build.1.en.html
> Containerfiles ending with a ".in" suffix will be preprocessed via
> cpp(1). This can be useful to decompose Containerfiles into several
> reusable parts that can be used via CPP's #include directive. Notice,
> a Containerfile.in file can still be used by other tools when manually
> preprocessing them via cpp -E. Any comments ( Lines beginning with # )
> in included Containerfile(s) that are not preprocess commands, will be
> printed as warnings during builds.
Implementation:
https://sources.debian.org/src/golang-github-containers-buildah/1.41.4%2Bds1-3/imagebuildah/build.go#L480-L521
Let me know if you have further questions or concerns.
Best,
-rt
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