[elbe-devel] Elbe ignores Built-Using fields

Bastian Germann bage at linutronix.de
Fri Mar 13 17:46:58 CET 2020


Hi,

Debian Policy 7.8 [0] defines a Built-Using field that has to list
packages in case of including their content. The most important
application of this field is with statically linking object code from a
-dev package.

Elbe does not take this field into consideration for src-cdrom creation.
It should do this because this field influences the complete and
corresponding source code. The binary package list should be parsed for
this field and the resulting packages' source packages should be added
to the source package list. Note that Built-Using always comes with an
exact version number for each package in its list.

If you need an example for implementation, look at go-bindata.

[0]: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html



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