Re: (was: Re: Bug#886238: Please introduce official nosystemd build profile)

[Michael Stone <mstone@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 11:35:30AM -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> At times, Ubuntu needs to avoid certain build-dependencies because
> they would add an unwanted "universe" binary dependency to a "main"
> package. In some cases, that is the *only* change Ubuntu makes to the
> package. I believe it benefits Debian for Ubuntu and Debian packaging
> to be as shared as much as possible.
>
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/1734339

$64k question: does having to maintain some notion of which build 
profiles to use for a package (and actually maintaining the build 
profile upstream) end up being less effort than a couple of lines of 
patch to remove a dependency?

Mike Stone