Bug#666726: debian-policy: Clarify if empty control fields are ollowed or not
On Sun, 23 Nov 2014, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>, 2014-11-23, 18:49:
> >>This bug is mostly to document a check in dak. Are you
> >>suggesting the check is looking at the debian/control file and
> >>reject source packages with empty fields?
> >
> >That would be broken beyond belief! debian/control might not even
> >*exist* after source package unpack when it is autogenerated
> >during the build.
>
> Not quite. dpkg-buildpackage checks for existence of debian/control
> before running debian/rules. So if the source package doesn't ship
> the file, it will FTBFS.
Hmm, I stand corrected. And I should say I rather prefer a world where
debian/control is there when the source is unpacked, so I am happy to have
been wrong about this :-)
> Moreover, ftp-masters require that certain things in debian/control
> (Build-Depends, package list) do not change during package build:
> https://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html
Thanks.
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Henrique Holschuh
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