Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org> writes: > #311724 > > cdbs is an example for this madness (B-D) here, maybe others do it too. Oh, blech. Yes, I agree this should be prohibited. Never occurred to me to do something like that. I think a suitable substitute would be, instead of generating new Build-Depends, see what you would have generated, and fail if it's not right. That should satisfy anyone who really *wants* a misfeature like this. Thomas