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Re: Computing Build-Depends at build time (and other updates to debian/control)?



On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 6:55 PM, Ian Jackson wrote:

> You're effectively asking for the interface to a Debian source package
> to be redefined so that every package must be built twice: once to
> discover its control file, and then again to actually build the
> binaries.

This would be incredibly useful for moving towards a world of
automatic packaging based on whatever metadata upstream is already
providing for other package management formats.

https://summit.debconf.org/debconf14/meeting/25/debdry-debian-dont-repeat-yourself/
http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2014/debconf14/webm/debdry_Debian_Dont_Repeat_Yourself.webm
https://wiki.debian.org/AutomaticPackagingTools

-- 
bye,
pabs

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