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Bug#983227: coz-profiler: drop unused Build-Depends



Hi Petter,

On Thu, May 09, 2024 at 11:07:20AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> The reason it have these build dependencies, is to make sure the package
> only build on architectures where it will actually work, to avoid
> earning a release critical bug of providing binaries that do not work.
> 
> I am thus very reluctant to drop build dependencies also needed at
> runtime.

Your reasoning on this is sound to me. Would you mind adding comments to
debian/control documenting this non-obvious aspect such that the next
time someone looks for technically unused dependencies they see why
they're there?

>From my pov, please close this bug when documenting their need.

Helmut


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