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Re: Bug#657853: Building perl with hardened build flags



On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:46:54 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:

> Just wanted to check - are you happy to prod the buildd maintainers
> into making sure that debhelper >= 9.20120312 is installed, or should
> I? I'd like to make sure that the changes I've got queued up don't
> get forgotten about.
> 
> (Is there even a way to get interrogate the buildds to get the current
> set of installed packages, or a policy about how often they should
> update from unstable?)

There's an un(der)documented wann-build command for that, similar to
dw but slightly different, and I neither remember nor find it now.
(We used that for binNMUs of some xs-packages that needed a specific
perl version.)

Ha, here it is: "extra-depends"!

Sources: 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.general/843972
-> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=632467#20


Cheers,
gregor
 
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