On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 7:06 AM, Brian May wrote: > The idea was to allow it to build unchanged on Jessie, which doesn't > have python-pep8. I guess my question wasn't clear enough. I was asking why pep8/python-pep8 are used at build time at all. They are tools for checking style, there is no reason to use them at build time at all. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise