drop Built-Using everywhere

3 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 35d4319..8e33bf5 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,7 +1,16 @@
 dh-elpa (1.8) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
 
+  [ David Bremner ]
   * License generated maintainer scripts under CC0 (roughly, public domain).
 
+  [ Sean Whitton ]
+  * Stop generating ${misc:Built-Using} substvar.
+    No longer required since maintscripts are now licensed CC0/public domain.
+    While the substvar was initially added to help find packages that need
+    to be rebuilt against a more recent version of dh-elpa (see #803350),
+    this is not the intended use of the Built-Using field, and as such it
+    has been inconveniencing the Release Team.
+
  -- David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>  Fri, 07 Jul 2017 09:05:13 -0300
 
 dh-elpa (1.7) unstable; urgency=medium
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 24c9065..9cdf117 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-emacsen/pkg/dh-elpa.git/
 
 Package: dh-elpa
 Architecture: all
-Built-Using: ${misc:Built-Using}
 Depends:
  debhelper (>= 9.20151004),
  libdebian-source-perl | dh-make-perl (>= 0.90),
diff --git a/dh_elpa.in b/dh_elpa.in
index 14e7396..14a38fd 100755
--- a/dh_elpa.in
+++ b/dh_elpa.in
@@ -210,8 +210,6 @@ foreach my $package (@{$dh{DOPACKAGES}}) {
   File::Path::make_path $tempdir ||
 	  error "creating $tempdir";
 
-  addsubstvar($package,'misc:Built-Using',"dh-elpa (= ${helper_version})");
-
   if (scalar(@files) == 1) {
       my $pkg_file=$files[0];
 
@@ -275,11 +273,6 @@ can be used in debian/control
 
 These are dependencies needed by every dh_elpa based package.
 
-=item ${misc:Built-Using}
-
-This adds a value suitable for a Built-Using header identifying the
-version of dh_elpa used at build time.
-
 =item ${elpa:Depends}
 
 These are dependencies on other ELPA packages as given in the
@@ -314,7 +307,6 @@ substvars
     Package: elpa-hello
     Architecture: all
     Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${elpa:Depends}
-    Built-Using: ${misc:Built-Using}
     Description: Emacs addon to say hello
      The Emacs editor addon likes to wave and say hello.