Bug#1035888: ITP: dh-builtusing -- debhelper tool generating the Built-Using field for Debian packages

[Nicolas Boulenguez <nicolas@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Nicolas Boulenguez <nicolas@debian.org>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, 689062@bugs.debian.org, 990073@bugs.debian.org

* Package name    : dh-builtusing
  Upstream        : native Debian package, I am the author
  Version         : 0.0.1
* URL             : https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dh-builtusing
* License         : GPL-3+
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description     : debhelper tool generating the Built-Using field for Debian packages

This tool may help maintainers of Debian packages by generating parts
of the Built-Using dependencies at build time.
.
It searches the Built-Using and Static-Built-Using fields in a source
control file for substitutions of variables names like
dh-builtusing:x, looks for x in build-dependencies, then defines the
variable with the source package and version for x.
.
In other words, it replaces the call to dpgk-query that each package
or debhelper tool has to duplicate for the Built-Using field.


The dh_builtusing.pod manual page contains a full description.
The log for #689062 contains the original discussion.