Bug#70196: automatic build fails for potato

[Matthew Vernon <matthew@sel.cam.ac.uk>]

Goswin Brederlow writes:
 > Package: asa
 > Version: N/A;
 > Severity: normal

 > Since you have no "Build-Depends" you eigther forgot that your package
 > build-depends on something (like debhelper?) or you don't know about
 > build dependencies.
 > dh_testdir
 > make: dh_testdir: Command not found

Oh, come off it! section 8.7 of the packaging manual says "may" in
reference to build-depends, so not doing so cannot be a bug. Also, to
expect everyone to state a build dependancy on debhelper is
ridiculous! You can't reasonably expect to auto-build packages without
having it available. I'm therefore closing this bug.

I fail to see what this whole process of filing bugs against every
package without a Build-Depends: debhelper is meant to achieve, other
than filling the bts with garbage...

Matthew
Debian QA
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