> *sigh* I'd reopened and reassiged it if I were you. Not doing that now > myself because there is also a sponsorship request for cdist at > https://bugs.debian.org/837319 which will solve this anyways. > > Dmitry: Will have a look at #837319. :-)
Fine. > > While on it I'd investigate why it has such particular needs of a so > > weird depdency. > > That's something the sphinx maintainers should have a look at it as > they seem to have decided that it's needed, otherwise they probably > wouldn't have made the effort to implement it. > > Since not every sphinx reverse dependency which uses > ${sphinxdoc:Depends} (about 527 source packages in unstable according > to [1]) seems to have that rather strict dependency (thanks to Mattia > for pointing that out on IRC :-), I wonder what makes cdist's package > build causing that strict dependency. dh_linktree. Replacing files (images, fonts, ...) with symbolic links in deduplicate mode. I could drop it, it would result in increased binary package size and, what bothers me more, several instances of same file in my /usr. Sorry, I do not follow very well about situation. I beleive -2 revision should solve issue, isn't it?