Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

[Philipp Kern <trash@philkern.de>]

On 2011-02-15, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
>> sbuild switched to using Dpkg::Deps for parsing dependencies; we would
>> ideally want an equivalent to Dpkg::Deps::reduce_arch() to do the
>> stripping (if reduce_arch wasn't the appropriate place to do it
>> already).  This saves us from reimplementing yet another parser, and
>> it getting outdated; we currently use it for stripping dependencies
>> not needed for the build's architecture.
> Does this need to be backported to the squeeze dpkg to be usable on the
> buildds?  I assume it will.  (I'm making my list of features we're going to
> want backported in apt/dpkg for buildds in relation to this, since we missed
> the boat by a bit for squeeze.)

Uh.  As that'd involve the host dpkg, it likely should go into squeeze proper,
which is at the SRM's discretion.  I'm pretty sure that DSA won't like the idea
of using dpkg from -backports.  Same for apt.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern