On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 12:11 AM Roberto C. Sánchez <robe...@debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 12:03:00AM +0800, Shengjing Zhu wrote:
> >
> > This is not right, you should check the Built-Using field. For example
> > grep-dctrl -F Built-Using golang-yaml.v2 -sPackage
> >
> > This will drop some packages that only use golang-yaml.v2 for tests,
> > which don't need to be rebuilt.
> >
> The webpage which was prepared to document the steps for LTS [0],
> includes this:
>
> Maintainer snippet: excludes source-only/arch-all packages, but misses some
> packages such as ‘aptly’ (missing/incomplete Built-Using field):
>
> apt-cache dumpavail | \
> grep-dctrl \
> -F Built-Using 'golang-1.7' -a \
> '(' --not -F Architecture all ')' \
> -s Source,Package,Version
>
> The link indicates that it originated from #863956. However, in
> discussion with Sylvain (who authored the page) he indicated that for
> LTS this is not always a good approach, as Built-Using was much less
> reliably available in buster. Are you aware of the situation being
> different for buster?
>
Individual package maintainers may always have mistakes in their
packages, by not properly following Go packaging guide. I don't think
this is specific to buster or not.
--
Shengjing Zhu
