CDBS is obsolete and unmaintained, it should not be part of Forky. This bug will be used to autoremove the very last users once the last key_packages using it have been updated. Greetings Alexandre
Hi Alexandre,
As you mentioned these packages need fixing
$ reverse-depends cdbs
$ reverse-depends cdbs -b
Reverse-Build-Depends
=====================
* debian-design
* debian-parl
* fonts-noto
* lintian
* pandoc-sidenote
* squeak-vm
Reverse-Testsuite-Triggers
==========================
* config-package-dev
* lintian
squeak-vm and fonts-noto have dropped their dep on cdbs. lintian has a MR open and
I'm waiting for a review from another maintainer.
What about the remaining packages? does it make sense to remove debian-{parl,design}? They
have been out of testing for a while. What about pandoc-sidenote?
Thanks,
Nilesh
Hi, I think all have been fixed, but even if not, they could live (with src:cdbs) in unstable until fixed. It's more important to remove cdbs from testing than it is to remove from unstable. Thanks for working on this issue, appreciated. I'll be happy to help get it out of testing with RT powers and block its migration afterwards. Paul
Hi,
For fonts-noto I really tried to trim the vendored CDBS makefiles as
much as possible; to make it easier if someone else is interested
to slowly transmute it into a more usual short DH package.
There is also more intrusive changes discussed in #1041312
For debian-{parl,design}, I did not invested such extra effort though,
I just dumped the whole of CDBS over it and only trimmed
the dh_systemd* parts that broke with DH-compat 13.
These two should be ported to the other more popular blend framework
( https://www.debian.org/blends/) but 1) I cannot coerce Jonas;
2) I have no clue how these Blends work myself; but have some really fresh
experience of how to vendor CDBS at hand...
The other bugs listed as "blocking" this bug are not all true blockers,
some are just random items that need to be done some day;
possibly, _after_ cdbs removal.
I think that cdbs can be removed immediately after next lintian release;
there is not even a need to kick it out of testing; but an override is welcome.
Greetings
Alexandre
Le lun. 6 avr. 2026 à 22:07, Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> a écrit :
Adding Andreas as well, as he's blends expert and might have some ideas. This is not urgent though. Okay then, that's good news. According to dak, there are only 2 packages that need fixing Checking reverse dependencies... # Broken Build-Depends: lintian: cdbs pandoc-sidenote: cdbs I converted #1055980 into a ROM, so it's only about time it is dropped and we don't need to fix it. the next couple of days or so. Please file a ROM for cdbs once this happens. Paul: would you be able to help with urgenting current lintian upload to testing or the next one? Unsure if it's really needed, but it makes things quick. Best, Nilesh
I filled the bug 1132889 with the moreinfo tag, Anyone can remove the moreinfo tag when it's ready. Greetings Alexandre Le mar. 7 avr. 2026 à 06:02, Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org> a écrit :
Dear submitter, as the package cdbs has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1132889 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/. Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the earliest. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)