Bug#850943: [Dose-devel] Bug#850943: dose-builddebcheck: please add an option to check non-full builds

[Ralf Treinen <treinen@free.fr>]

Hello,

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 02:15:26PM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote:

> currently, dose-builddebcheck can only check build dependency
> satisfiability for full package builds. It would be great if
> dose-builddebcheck could easily be used to also check arch-all-only,
> arch-any-only, source-only build or any combination of those.
> Specifically this would be interesting for wanna-build because that
> still has to mangle build dependencies in the right way before passing
> them to dose-builddebcheck because of this missing feature.
> 
> My idea would be to add a new option to dose-builddebcheck like:
> 
>  --deb-build=type
> 
> Where type is a comma separated value equal to syntax and semantics as
> for the --build option in dpkg-buildpackage.

Sounds like a good idea. However, I have no idea what a source-only
build is, and how one can obtain its build-dependencies.

-Ralf.