Re: Versioned dependencies on dh-octave + Rules-Requires-Root

[Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org>]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2025-08-18 10:18]:

> Le lundi 18 août 2025 à 15:53 +0200, Rafael Laboissière a écrit :
> > * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2025-08-17 10:20]:
> > […]
> > > So is there any other reason to keep those build-dependencies on dh-
> > > octave, that I may be missing?
> >
> > I think that it is just to ensure that newly created packages depend on 
> > the version of dh-octave that contains the dh_octave-make script that 
> > generated the package. This may be superfluous in some cases, indeed. Do 
> > you see it as a nuisance?
>
> I think I’d rather have it removed in all existing packages when the 
> versioned dependency is no longer needed (I guess most if not all 
> cases). I agree that it’s mostly cosmetic, so I won’t argue if you 
> disagree.
>
> For dh_octave_make, I would also remove it for now, for the same 
> reason.

What do you mean by “the versioned dependency is no longer needed?”

> > Thanks for that. I am preparing a mass change to remove 
> > “Rules-Requires-Root: no”. I will also adjust dh_octave_make so that it 
> > no longer adds this field.
>
> Thanks. Please note that I already made the adjustment in 
> dh_octave_make.

Great, thanks.

Best,

Rafael