Bug#858999: [mk-build-deps] Please ignore <!nocheck> packages if "nocheck" is specified in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

[Mattia Rizzolo]

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On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 01:52:38PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Please add support for ignoring Build-Depends tagged with "<!nocheck>"
> if "nocheck" is exported in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.

"tagging" of Build-Depends are called "build profiles" and are to be
specified with DEB_BUILD_PROFILES.  AFAIK mk-build-deps already has
support for build profiles.

> diffoscope has an expansive testsuite — if I want to quickly build it
> without testing mk-build-deps still installs all the "testing" Build-
> Depends, despite them being suffixed with "<!nocheck>".

You should build with both DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS and DEB_BUILD_PROFILES with
"nocheck" in them (they are both space-separated), they have different
porpuse and meaning, but sometimes (like this case) they are a tad
overlapped.

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