Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes: > control: tag -1 + moreinfo > > Hello Xiyue, > > Please explain the autopkgtest_keep change. Remember that autopkgtests > are to test the installed package. If you need to keep the .el files, > it must be for some reason other than because the test suite actually > just tests those. > I think this is another example of buttercup tests that requires source .el files to run. I'll probably open a bug on buttercup to see whether this is required for buttercup. Meanwhile I think it'd probably be better to just disable autopkgtest as the tests are already run as part of the build process. > You've removed the Built-Using with the justification that it's an > arch:all package, but that doesn't make sense; Built-Using is for > licensing reasons, and may well be applicable to an arch:all package (I > think this came up before with one of your uploads?). Ah I was following the suggestions of Lintian which said it cannot be used by arch:all packages which is probably wrong. On the other hand, on a closer look at the policy regarding Built-Using on section 7.8[1], it has the following passage: ,---- | This field should be used only when there are license or DFSG | requirements to retain the referenced source packages. It should not be | added solely as a way to locate packages that need to be rebuilt against | newer versions of their build dependencies. `---- I checked that lua-mode is of GPL-2+[2], and of all its dependencies lua5.3 is of MIT which is compatible with GPL, and the rest are all GPL 2+ or 3+, so I don't see a license or DFSG need to add this Built-Using requirement. The change was introduced in [3] but it was part of the modernization effort so there is no direct justification of adding the field. May be I'm missing something here? -- Xiyue Deng [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#additional-source-packages-used-to-build-the-binary-built-using [2] Upstream switched to GPL-3+ in 2022 but we haven't packaged that yet. [3] https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/lua-mode/-/commit/2e207a6835a3899f6eba0675c4763c1757335bcc
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