On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 22:46:16 +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > tl;dr: any objections from the list to a mass bug filing of 81 pkg-perl > packages at severity 'minor' ? Quite to the contrary: I agree with your reasoning. > Right. My thinking is that these missing build dependencies are minor > latent bugs that are probably never going to hurt in practice, but it's > still worth fixing them. Theoretically the dpkg-dev implementation might > change to another language in the future, exposing those latent bugs. (In that case debhelper would still save us :)) > > So, would it be possible to add this build-dep to those 81 packages? > I'm fine with a mass bug filing, probably with severity minor, and/or a > (possibly pkg-perl specific?) lintian check or whatever but I'm not sure > if we have a consensus or not. So any objections? :) An additional lintian check would indeed be nice. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Rolling Stones
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