Your message dated Wed, 11 May 2022 18:34:42 +0000 with message-id <e1noray-000hgy...@fasolo.debian.org> and subject line Bug#999826: fixed in debian-policy 4.6.1.0 has caused the Debian Bug report #999826, regarding debian-policy: fix Build-Depends footnote to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Source: debian-policy Version: 4.6.0.1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: jo...@debian.org Hi, currently, footnote [1] of §7 states: > While Build-Depends, Build-Depends-Indep and Build-Depends-Arch permit > the use of alternative dependencies, these are not normally used by the > Debian autobuilders. To avoid inconsistency between repeated builds of a > package, the autobuilders will default to selecting the first > alternative, after reducing any architecture-specific restrictions for > the build architecture in question. While this may limit the usefulness > of alternatives in a single release, they can still be used to provide > flexibility in building the same package across multiple distributions > or releases, where a particular dependency is met by differently named > packages. There are multiple problems with this footnote: 1. "they are not normally used by the Debian autobuilders" should instead be "they are never used by the Debian autobuilders" or it should state when they are used and when they are not 2. the above also omits that they are used in situations where an alternative has the form pkgA (rel ver1) | pkgA (rel ver2) 3. "To avoid inconsistency between repeated builds" suggests that this measure avoids inconsistency. It does avoid some but since it doesn't avoid all, it's wrong to say that it does avoid consistency. Inconsistency is still created by alternatives of binary packages and by virtual packages. So maybe the above can be improved? Here is a suggested new wording for the first part of the footnote: > While Build-Depends, Build-Depends-Indep and Build-Depends-Arch permit > the use of alternative dependencies, these are discarded by the Debian > autobuilders, after reducing any architecture-specific restrictions for > the build architecture in question, except when the later alternative > has the same package name as the first alternative. This is to improve > consistency between repeated builds of a package while still allowing > version ranges of the same package. This is the relevant code in sbuild for reference: https://sources.debian.org/src/sbuild/0.81.2/lib/Sbuild/ResolverBase.pm/?hl=1128#L1167 Thanks! cheers, josch
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--- Begin Message ---Source: debian-policy Source-Version: 4.6.1.0 Done: Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of debian-policy, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive. A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to 999...@bugs.debian.org, and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> (supplier of updated debian-policy package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 11:02:59 -0700 Source: debian-policy Architecture: source Version: 4.6.1.0 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Policy Editors <debian-policy@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> Closes: 542288 850729 992601 998063 999566 999826 1008480 Changes: debian-policy (4.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium . * Policy: Allow non-64-bit packages to install to /usr/lib64 Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> Seconded: Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> Seconded: Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> Closes: #992601 * Policy: Define 'upstream' & document several version conventions Wording: Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> Seconded: Sam Hartman <hartm...@debian.org> Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> Closes: #542288, #850729 * virtual-package-names-list: Add {default,}dbus-system-bus (Closes: #998063). Thanks to Simon McVittie for the patch. * Update 9.7.2 and 9.7.3 for package split of bin:mime-support into bin:media-types and bin:mailcap (Closes: #1008480). Thanks to Charles Plessy for the patch. . * Fix several problems with footnote regarding the autobuilders and build dependency alternatives (Closes: #999826). Thanks to Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues for the report and patch. * Use syntax highlighting for some source code blocks (Closes: #999566). Thanks to Stéphane Blondon for the patch. Checksums-Sha1: b5b8adf3e63f837bd4e7f10966ea628804945523 2052 debian-policy_4.6.1.0.dsc b3e6266ce34faad023c9d9b49f3228c46fc83588 550664 debian-policy_4.6.1.0.tar.xz Checksums-Sha256: 185cf49f72fe10b84910d71fa58bd0c68d513e530deca11fcce3cb7a5533a852 2052 debian-policy_4.6.1.0.dsc 144dfe25e5f519c9855f52934a46e26e46b5fd818a8e45c6debf605a0a87b323 550664 debian-policy_4.6.1.0.tar.xz Files: 776ca729f5aadaa9e413daa6a7afc80b 2052 doc optional debian-policy_4.6.1.0.dsc 0d0d9cad654b4a67eb059b268ace0b9b 550664 doc optional debian-policy_4.6.1.0.tar.xz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEm5FwB64DDjbk/CSLaVt65L8GYkAFAmJ7/L0ACgkQaVt65L8G YkCpXhAAjc79jrGUfPW/b7zN5e0yqKZ88saXAEMOR+pclGFrP0og5n9F77YWfBjQ H7y8darnOwnFcYONYawAMxYzdHKKTJwYuQpZk8rfsfrSLXbK0keoI4Wl1L7hFSGZ q3g58gDLvVIgaT+kCfS/biyD7B6sf2UyOy/E8pg1Y/8HAf/oTM1yxXlbM5X73uzy bGSSWslurDnZKsMgyYR2RsWBcAqkvCqGuIUll0vOamznMExd0o7Q3Z/gAarnT7p0 p8w6TY+tFVdyXk1ZkkXnzJMonJednIdjF9lfyKDoxu9e24RUVn4Pf0ZFHG5HDLug aSqC9nsPT0XTvs5s9OpRY3YHlTf8RnC2MLSneop05gCGs8mOP/EyyfrUz/CERzv2 j4BjydCX5zQK+Jk2TADnnEHYrmeLvMqQXQHn0AmwDJRtZE07XZ3JLrwtUbckYBZk 5ApmXIFGxE5upGj7kKuixX+235DHzvXvasa4mcKmTpldlk5KdbNeSwBuSf6lQX3Z Vh8rfLSCMvO64KZTijPSNj1sbDmqQ5vkzMp3bzCUYL22qE3T8jRqSwaSZ7cAni7G KaDqq5wPotK6N1GqeGHGT24wVDIDfJT159li7eyNoSIElXLdNeKqaEMxGspw9yWJ ew/mCHDoLkNNRRuwg8ei90Whl50qQenbDyG14PLXy8JbKzM+tmM= =reXG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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