On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 11:35:30AM -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
At times, Ubuntu needs to avoid certain build-dependencies because they would add an unwanted "universe" binary dependency to a "main" package. In some cases, that is the *only* change Ubuntu makes to the package. I believe it benefits Debian for Ubuntu and Debian packaging to be as shared as much as possible. https://launchpad.net/bugs/1734339
$64k question: does having to maintain some notion of which build profiles to use for a package (and actually maintaining the build profile upstream) end up being less effort than a couple of lines of patch to remove a dependency?
Mike Stone