Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> (2015-03-09): > Source: debian-installer > Severity: important > > Built-Using was missing some items, see #696418 & #700026, so a patch > was pushed to try and deal with it: > > commit b4411bfb56601cf6a7366a1bec065b56b91f1a42 > Author: Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> > Date: Mon Mar 3 00:00:46 2014 +0100 > > Extend write-built-using to also generate the ${extra:Built-Using} > substvar. > > This makes it possible to track packages mentioned in the > EXTRA_PACKAGES > variable (currently set to "bf-utf-source syslinux"). Thanks to Ansgar > Burchardt for the reports (Closes: #696418, #700026). > > Note: Unknown packages are ignored, so architecture-specific packages > shouldn't be a problem. > > Acked-by: Ian Campbell <i...@debian.org> > Signed-off-by: Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> > > I lost track of Karsten's objection here: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2015/02/msg00012.html > > so here's a bug report to try and get that fixed instead of just > reverting the said commit. (Funny how things that shouldn't be an issue > turn out to be one…) > > It's indeed sad that I only tested the case of an entirely inexistent > package and didn't think about the funny not-available-on-all-archs > packages… > > Maybe we could iterate over the packages mentioned there, calling > dpkg-checkbuilddeps with its -d flag to see if the relevant packages are > relevant? Another idea might be to use Dpkg::Deps to figure out whether > some package is relevant for the current architecture? Any other ideas? > > I'd happily take patches here, as I'm busy with other bugs.
Karsten, I can't seem able to reproduce that in an armhf sid chroot on harris.debian.org… Any clues? I'd like to upload src:debian-installer really soon, and that's the only thing remaining for now. Mraw, KiBi.
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