Bug#1122238: ben should ignore Build-Depends-Indep

[Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org>]

Hi Arian,

Le 22/12/2025 à 11:55, Adrian Bunk a écrit :
> main user would be the Release Team (added to Cc), they might be happy
> with an option?

I didn't see anyone in Cc... I added them.

> A relevant question would be whether such an option should be available
> globally and/or per ben file.

Maybe both. I have no opinion for now.

> Python transitions also have the opposite problem of missing
> transitive dependencies, but it is unclear how much manual
> dependency manipulation would be really beneficial.
>
> What could help Python transitions automatically would be an option in a
> ben file to ignore "unknown" packages for dependencies.

I'm not sure I follow... Why not tune the "affected" condition so that 
there is no "unknown" packages?


Cheers,

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Stéphane