Hi,

CDBS is being slowly dismantled, piece by piece.

According to Debian Code Search,
there are 0 users (/left) of these modules:

/usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/check-files.mk
/usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/config-package.mk
/usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debconf-divert.mk
/usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/displace.mk
/usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/transform-files.mk

Please consider remove those &
the mention of CDBS in debian/control

Greetings

Alexandre

severity 1110310 normal
thanks

The point of config-package-dev is to allow for others who are *not* in the
main debian repositories to be able to build debian packages to configure
their systems. As a result, the code search results you included are not
necessarily relevant. We need to continue to support users which may have
CDBS-based packages. Until the point that cdbs support is announced to be
removed in Debian, I believe it is correct for these references to stay.

Sincerely,
-Alex

Hi,

A more public announcement will be made around FOSDEM week-end (30/1);
for now it's still too early as some actions are entwined with the
processing of the NEW queue.

Here's a spoiler:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1126088

Alexandre

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
config-package-dev, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1110310@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Alexander Chernyakhovsky <achernya@mit.edu> (supplier of updated config-package-dev package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:26:36 -0400
Source: config-package-dev
Architecture: source
Version: 5.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debathena Project <debathena@mit.edu>
Changed-By: Alexander Chernyakhovsky <achernya@mit.edu>
Closes: 1110310
Changes:
 config-package-dev (5.6) unstable; urgency=medium
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