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Re: Bug#1025164: lintian: missing-prerequisite-for-pyproject-backend tag needs to check Build-Depends-Indep too

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From	Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>
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Subject	Re: Bug#1025164: lintian: missing-prerequisite-for-pyproject-backend tag needs to check Build-Depends-Indep too
Date	Thu, 01 Dec 2022 05:20:01 +0100
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On Wednesday, November 30, 2022 10:38:30 PM EST Stuart Prescott wrote:
> Hi Scott,
> 
> On 01/12/2022 02:16, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > Package: lintian
> > Version: 2.115.3
> > Severity: normal
> > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-python@lists.debian.org
> > 
> > The missing-prerequisite-for-pyproject-backend check appears to only
> > look for the prerequisite packages in Build-Depends, but since they
> > aren't needed for clean, they could be in Build-Depends-Indep, leading
> > to false positives.
> > 
> > Scott K
> 
> I contemplated filing a similar the other day but in writing it up, I
> realised that lintian was correct. Policy requires that the 'clean'
> target be functional with only the Build-Depends (and Build-Conflicts)
> satisfied, and pybuild + the build-backend dependencies are involved in
> the cleaning step.

Not always.  At least with the package I ran into this on, clean works fine 
without them.

Scott K

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Bug#1025164: lintian: missing-prerequisite-for-pyproject-backend tag needs to check Build-Depends-Indep too Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2022-11-30 16:30 +0100
  Re: Bug#1025164: lintian: missing-prerequisite-for-pyproject-backend  tag needs to check Build-Depends-Indep too Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org> - 2022-12-01 04:40 +0100
    Re: Bug#1025164: lintian: missing-prerequisite-for-pyproject-backend tag needs to check Build-Depends-Indep too Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2022-12-01 05:20 +0100
      Re: Bug#1025164: lintian: missing-prerequisite-for-pyproject-backend  tag needs to check Build-Depends-Indep too Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org> - 2022-12-01 08:00 +0100
        Re: Bug#1025164: lintian: missing-prerequisite-for-pyproject-backend  tag needs to check Build-Depends-Indep too Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org> - 2022-12-02 23:20 +0100

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