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| -rw-r--r-- | debian/changelog | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/dsc.man | 3 |
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diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 37b2d7d44..c886d9a7a 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@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 839bada32..70ccb87f3 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@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 |