[dpkg] 91/200: man: Add a rationale for the purpose of Testsuite-Triggers in dsc(5)

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Author: Guillem Jover <guillem at debian.org>
Date:   Tue Dec 20 12:51:54 2016 +0100

    man: Add a rationale for the purpose of Testsuite-Triggers in dsc(5)
    
    Prompted-by: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia at debian.org>
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 debian/changelog | 2 ++
 man/dsc.man      | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 37b2d7d..c886d9a 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ dpkg (1.18.18) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   [ Guillem Jover ]
   * Documentation:
     - Document DPKG_DATADIR in an ENVIRONMENT section in dpkg-architecture(1).
+    - Add a rationale for the purpose of Testsuite-Triggers in dsc(5).
+      Prompted by Mattia Rizzolo <mattia at debian.org>.
   * Packaging:
     - Revert the perl to perl:any dependency change in libdpkg-perl, as that
       breaks debootstrap in stable (jessie), testing (stretch) and unstable,
diff --git a/man/dsc.man b/man/dsc.man
index 839bada..70ccb87 100644
--- a/man/dsc.man
+++ b/man/dsc.man
@@ -149,6 +149,9 @@ This field declares the comma-separated union of all test dependencies
 restrictions removed, and OR dependencies flattened, except for binaries
 generated by this source package and meta-dependencies such as \fB@\fP or
 \fB at builddeps@\fP.
+
+Rationale: this field is needed because otherwise to be able to get the
+test dependencies, each source package would need to be unpacked.
 .TP
 .BI Build\-Depends: " package-list"
 .TQ

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