Cyril Brulebois <kibi@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 <kibi@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 <ijc@debian.org>
> Signed-off-by: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@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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