Re: Bug#911854: build-rdeps: some (transitive) rdeps are missing

[Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org>]

Le 27/10/2018 à 15:20, James McCoy a écrit :
>> I think "creduce" should be in the output of "build-rdeps
>> liblablgtksourceview2-ocaml-dev" because it build-depends on
>> frama-c-base which is built by frama-c, which build-depends on
>> liblablgtksourceview2-ocaml-dev.
>>
>> […]
>> Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
>> […]
>> ii  dose-extra                   5.0.1-11+b1
> 
> Since dose-extra is installed, it is the tool determining what the
> reverse dependencies are.  Maybe one of its maintainers can comment on
> whether this is a dose-ceve bug, a bug with how build-rdeps uses
> dose-ceve, or expected behavior.

I figured out that calling dose-ceve with the --deb-builds-from option
does what I want. I don't know why it's not the default.

Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane