On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 09:20:53PM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 10:10:07AM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> > Is debian/control maybe generated during the build? That is not allowed [1].
>
> It's generated, but by a `maint` target run before making the source
> package.
>
> However I see there is also a dependency on debian/control from
> override_dh_auto_configure. Looking at the .dsc it looks like I forgot
> to run `debian/rules maint` for 1.4.28-1 so debian/control may have been
> regenerated during the build.
>
> The equivalent of this dependency has been there since the start of git
> history over 20 years ago, before I took over as maintainer, but it is
> clearly a bad idea. I'll remove it.
Removed in 1.4.29-3 which I've just uploaded. Thanks for highlighting
this.
Cheers,
Olly
