On 28/09/12 21:55, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Control: severity -1 wishlist
>
> Hi!
>
> On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 20:58:13 +0100, Nicholas Bamber wrote:
>> Package: dpkg-dev
>> Version: 1.16.8
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Debian Policy version 3.9.4 adds support for the Built-Using field.
>> This field can be different on each build run and so is analagous to
>> the shlibs fields added via dpkg-shlibdeps.
>
> Even if it might seem so, it's really not like those substvars,
> because the values to put into Built-Using cannot be easily computed
> automatically (if at all). See previous discussion in #653575.
>
>> The differences are:
>> 1.) we are talking about static libraries rather than shared libraries
>
> Which cannot be reliably inferred from stripped binaries, in contrast
> to shared libraries.
>
>> 2.) we need the source package rather than the binary package.
>
> Which can already be easily retrieved through the dpkg-query
> source:Package and source:Version virtual fields.
>
> As such, I'm going to be closing this request if there's no additional
> feedback proposing a workable and elegant solution to this.
>
> thanks,
> guillem
Guillem,
Thanks for responing. I think I can come up with a proposed mechanism.
I'd be grateful if you'd allow me some time as it does not need to be in
Debian before Wheezy is released.
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