On 10350 March 1977, Martin-Eric Racine wrote: >> You may want to follow bug #311724, which is about exactly this issue. > Understood, but out of my hands; it appears to be a CDBS issue.
Yep, including this feature is a cdbs mistake. Using it is a maintainer mistake. > The last version of the default static debian/control I shipped was > correct; however, it doesn't change anything: my sponsor has to build > this package, at which point CDBS will overwrite this again. > Doing an NMU on CDBS to fix #311724 might be a more constructive approach > than asking everyone who uses CDBS with debian/control.in to go and fix > their package's static debian/control for absolutely no gain, given how it > will be overwrriten at the next build run. NO. Just remove the auto-update var in your debian/rules, fix the control file and build the package. DO NOT, EVER, change the Build-Depends in an automated way. NEVER. -- bye Joerg
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