Bug#1027832: debian-policy: Please clarify that priority required packages are not automatically build essential

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 07:13:04PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> El 4/1/23 a las 18:23, Sam Hartman escribió:
> > I think that the
> > cost of going and adding all the build-depends on
> > required-but-not-build-essential is not worth what I estimate we'd gain
> > from having this extra information.
> 
> I think you can't really estimate such thing. You seem to imply that we have
> been allowing packages with missing build-dependencies for a long time, but that's
> not accurate. The *buildds* have been allowing packages with missing build-dependencies
> for a long time, but I have been reporting those bugs for a long time as well.
> 
> So it's not as if I were proposing that we start doing something that we have never done.
> My only aim is that we detect such bugs earlier in the chain, in the buildds, where it should be.
> 
> BTW: Today I reported that kodi did not build without tzdata. But in the end
> this was not a missing build-dependency of kodi, but a missing *binary* dependency
> of one of the build-dependencies of kodi.

So is there a service that detect such missing *binary* dependency ?
This seems the missing piece. 

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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