* David (Plasma) Paul [Wed Nov 29, 2023 at 03:47:50PM -0600]:
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2023 12:48:31 +0100 Michael Prokop <m...@debian.org> wrote:
> > * David (Plasma) Paul [Wed Oct 25, 2023 at 11:36:48PM -0500]:

[...]

> > And the package description for says:
> > 
> > | - debootsnap: Combines debootstrap and snapshot.debian.org to create a 
> > chroot
> > |   containing exactly the requested selection of packages. This can be used
> > |   to re-create a chroot from the past, for example to reproduce a bug. The
> > |   tool is also used by debrebuild to build a package in a chroot with 
> > build
> > |   dependencies in the same version as recorded in the buildinfo file.
> > |   [apt-utils, dpkg-dev, equivs, mmdebstrap, python3-pycurl]
> > 
> > I can confirm that apt-utils, equivs, mmdebstrap and python3-pycurl,
> > but also python3-debian and python3-requests seem to be required.
> > 
> > Given that e.g. `equivs` is listed in both Recommends, but also in
> > the `[...]` section of the debootsnap's description, maybe the list
> > should be updated to:
> > 
> >   [apt-utils equivs mmdebstrap python3-debian python3-pycurl 
> > python3-requests]
> > 
> > ?
> 
> I concur. Given that dpkg-dev is already listed as a hard Dependency of
> devscripts and given that debootsnap indeed requires python3-debian and
> python3-requests, the list of packages following 'debootsnap' in the
> Description stanza of devscripts' metadata should read:
> 
> [apt-utils, equivs, mmdebstrap, python3-debian, python3-pycurl, 
> python3-requests]

*nod*

I implemented this at
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/devscripts/-/merge_requests/374

regards
-mika-

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