Dear Maintainer,

I'm trying to reduce the key package set.

https://release.debian.org/key-packages.html


This query of mine hereunder is giving very efficients results to work on.
(I have nicknamed it the "python build-depends Eternal Stew")

liblouis popped up to the surface this morning. (notice the "git diff" at the end)

+liblouis build-depends-indep python3-pytest


TLDR: What I'm asking you: please mark the python3-pytest build-dependency as <!nocheck>



Then some day after liblouis migrates we'll know which next package need fixing;
it's a long slow walk.

I would also suggests to run "wrap-and-sort -ast" to make it easier
to submit more detailed patches; but that's up to you.

Greetings and thanks in advance for this little
contribution to a greater cause.

Greetings


Alexandre
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#!/bin/sh

wget https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/key_packages.yaml.cgi

yq -r '.[].reason' key_packages.yaml.cgi \
  | grep build-depends \
  | grep -e py -e sphinx -e furo -e mkdocs -e json-schema-test-suite -e pillow \
  | grep -v 'depends lib.*-dev' \
  | grep -v 'depends.* lib.*-java' \
  | grep -v 'depends.* lib.*-perl' \
  | grep -v 'depends libghc' \
  | grep -v 'depends libqt' \
  | grep -v 'depends librust' \
  | grep -v 'depends node' \
  | grep -v 'depends py.*-dev' \
  | grep -v 'depends qt' \
  | grep -v 'depends ruby' \
  | sort > python

git diff

Hello,

Alexandre Detiste, le mer. 01 juil. 2026 07:49:03 +0200, a ecrit:

Done so in git.

You don't need to wait, with some grep-status / grep you can get a list.
quick&dirty gives:

for i in $(cat ~/key-packages) ; do grep-status -X -FPackage -sPackage,Build-Depends,Build-Depends-Indep $i ~/Sources ; done | tee ~/Sources-key

grep-status -FBuild-Depends -sPackage,Build-Depends python3-pytest ~/Sources-key | grep -ve 'python3-pytest [^,]*<!nocheck>' | tee ~/Sources-key-pytest

grep-status -FBuild-Depends-Indep -sPackage,Build-Depends-Indep python3-pytest ~/Sources-key | grep -ve 'python3-pytest [^,]*<!nocheck>' | tee -a ~/Sources-key-pytest

Samuel