Josh Triplett writes ("Re: Computing Build-Depends at build time (and other updates to debian/control)?"): > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 01:59:13PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > You should commit the generated debian/control to your version > > control. > > Why? That would break the standard principle that version control > should never contain a generated file, rather than the inputs that > generate it. (Exactly the same reason "configure" doesn't belong in > git, only "configure.ac".) I can run the generator, build the result, > and upload it.
I do not agree with this principle, but: fine, do what you like in your own version control. Users (and machines) who get your package from the Debian archive (which is, of course, a (really bad) version control system) will get what they expect. Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.