[Build-common-hackers] Bug#301607: cdbs: control auto-build messes with long descriptions

[Steve Langasek]

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clone 301607 -1
reassign -1 cstream
severity -1 serious
retitle -1 cstream: debian/rules clean modifies the source package
severity 301607 important
thanks

I don't consider this a release-critical bug in cdbs because packages
shouldn't be using DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_DEBIAN_CONTROL *anyway*: packages that do
so are in violation of policy section 4.8, because it means
=2E/debian/rules build clean is no longer idempotent when run using differi=
ng
versions of cdbs.

As a result, while I consider DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_DEBIAN_CONTROL a gross
misfeature of cdbs that ought to be removed, it is the responsibility of
other package maintainers to not use it for packages uploaded to Debian --
it is not the fault of the cdbs maintainers that you're using an optional
feature of cdbs that violates policy.

Regards,
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Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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