Bug#870640: Make source package bootstrappable

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 10:38:24PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Valid points by itself.  From the POV of logical factoring, yes I agree.
> 
> But this is a Debian native package with script/Makefile already
> mentioning data in debian/*.  So being picky on this point serves little
> benefits.

Whilst it is true that devscripts is a Debian native package, it is also
true that other distributions are packaging it, and they routinely need
to patch it to remove too-specific Debian stuff (like dependencies on
dpkg stuff).  I'd rather try to keep things separated when that's easy
enough to do.

> From practical checking of code by running test/test_* directly after
> updating the code, build system after logical factoring requires us to
> run test target manually in advance.  Extra work.

tbh, I fail to properly read your sentence above, so I'll avoid doing a
guess of what you mean.

> Also test target will
> likely to check all commands making it slow and non-focused.

I don't see that as a problem.

> Anyway, if you insist logical solution:
[…]
> something along this should solve all stupid perl module build
> dependency issues.  If you like this way, I am OK with this.

I don't see that as something too complex.

> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >  builddeps:/build/devscripts_2.17.10.dsc:arm64 : Depends: libfile-desktopentry-perl:arm64 but it is not installable
> >                                                  Depends: libfile-homedir-perl:arm64 but it is not installable
> >                                                  Depends: libgit-wrapper-perl:arm64 but it is not installable
> >                                                  Depends: liblist-compare-perl:arm64 but it is not installable
> >                                                  Depends: liburi-perl:arm64 but it is not installable
> >                                                  Depends: libwww-perl:arm64 but it is not installable
> 
> 
> Oh, unless you disable the target content in "devscripts.1:
> devscripts.1.in" , perl is needed for building this manpage.  It calls
> perl via "perl ../debian/genmanpage.pl"

Yeah, well.  I haven't checked all of them, but it could be that they
are most probably uninstallable due to something i those packages being
at fault.  I think that the only thing devscripts should try to do for
now is to move libgit-wrapper-perl to a <!nocheck>, that would make a
good step already.

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