diff --git a/Makefile.include b/Makefile.include
index 18f272c6d621..4acf053677ab 100644
--- a/Makefile.include
+++ b/Makefile.include
@@ -120,6 +120,9 @@ include $(RIOTMAKE)/info-nproc.inc.mk
 # List of boards variables
 include $(RIOTMAKE)/boards.inc.mk
 
+# Debug targets for build system migration
+include $(RIOTMAKE)/dependencies_debug.inc.mk
+
 GLOBAL_GOALS += buildtest buildtest-indocker info-boards-supported info-boards-features-missing info-buildsizes info-buildsizes-diff
 ifneq (, $(filter $(GLOBAL_GOALS), $(MAKECMDGOALS)))
   BOARD=none
diff --git a/dist/tools/buildsystem_sanity_check/save_all_dependencies_resolution_variables.sh b/dist/tools/buildsystem_sanity_check/save_all_dependencies_resolution_variables.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..21a892a78671
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dist/tools/buildsystem_sanity_check/save_all_dependencies_resolution_variables.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2019 Freie Universität Berlin
+#
+# This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU Lesser
+# General Public License v2.1. See the file LICENSE in the top level
+# directory for more details.
+#
+
+# Script to save all the dependencies resolution variables for both normal and
+# in `info-boards-supported` resolution.
+#
+# The script takes a long time
+#
+# @author: Gaëtan Harter <gaetan.harter@fu-berlin.de>
+
+: "${RIOTBASE:="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/../../../" || exit; pwd)"}"
+
+usage() {
+    echo "Usage: $0 <output_directory>"
+}
+
+
+applications() {
+    make --no-print-directory -C "${RIOTBASE}" info-applications
+}
+
+
+boards() {
+    make --no-print-directory -C "${RIOTBASE}" info-boards
+}
+
+
+function info_deps_variables_application() {
+    local application="$1"
+    local output_dir="$2/${application}"
+
+    DEPENDENCY_DEBUG=1 DEPENDENCY_DEBUG_OUTPUT_DIR="${output_dir}/info-global" make --no-print-directory -C "${RIOTBASE}/${application}" info-boards-supported >/dev/null
+    for board in $(boards)
+    do
+        DEPENDENCY_DEBUG_OUTPUT_DIR="${output_dir}/info" BOARD="${board}" make --no-print-directory -C "${RIOTBASE}/${application}" dependency-debug >/dev/null
+    done
+}
+
+
+main() {
+    if [[ $# -ne 1 ]]; then
+        usage
+        exit 1
+    fi
+    local output_dir
+
+    # No 'realpath' in mac by default…
+    output_dir=$(python -c 'import os.path; print(os.path.abspath("'"$1"'"))')
+
+    for app in $(applications)
+    do
+        echo "Evaluating ${app}" >&2
+        info_deps_variables_application "${app}" "${output_dir}"
+    done
+
+    # Generate the aggregated files to simplify comparing both parsing
+    find "${output_dir}" -type f -name 'dependencies_info_*' | sort | xargs cat > "${output_dir}"/deps_info
+    find "${output_dir}" -type f -name 'dependencies_info-boards-supported_*' | sort | xargs cat > ${output_dir}/deps_info-boards-supported
+}
+
+
+if [[ "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" == "${0}" ]]; then
+    main "$@"
+fi
diff --git a/doc/doxygen/src/advanced-build-system-tricks.md b/doc/doxygen/src/advanced-build-system-tricks.md
index 9c3d13c9e0d0..c7614a8bec43 100644
--- a/doc/doxygen/src/advanced-build-system-tricks.md
+++ b/doc/doxygen/src/advanced-build-system-tricks.md
@@ -38,3 +38,38 @@ You can configure your own files that will be parsed by the build system main
 * Specify a hard written `PORT` / `DEBUG_ADAPTER_ID` for some BOARD values
 * Define your custom targets
 * Override default targets
+
+
+Analyze dependency resolution                   {#analyze-depedency-resolution}
+=============================
+
+When refactoring dependency handling or modifying variables used for dependency
+resolution, one may want to evaluate the impact on the existing applications.
+This describe some debug targets to dump variables used during dependency
+resolution.
+
+To analyze one board and application run the following commands in an
+application directory.
+
+Generate the variables dump with the normal dependency resolution to a
+`dependencies_info_board_name` file:
+
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+BOARD=board_name make dependency-debug
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Or with the "quick" version used by murdock to know supported boards
+(this is an incomplete resolution, details in `makefiles/dependencies_debug.inc.mk`)
+to a `dependencies_info-boards-supported_board_name` file:
+
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+BOARDS=board_name DEPENDENCY_DEBUG=1 make info-boards-supported
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+For more configuration and usage details, see in the file defining the targets
+`makefiles/dependencies_debug.inc.mk`
+
+To do a repository wide analysis, you can use the script
+`dist/tools/buildsystem_sanity_check/save_all_dependencies_resolution_variables.sh`
+that will generate the output for all boards and applications.
+It currently take around 2 hours on an 8 cores machine with ssd.
diff --git a/makefiles/dependencies_debug.inc.mk b/makefiles/dependencies_debug.inc.mk
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5926b6135731
--- /dev/null
+++ b/makefiles/dependencies_debug.inc.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+# Debug targets to evaluate dependency migrations
+#
+# The goal is to get the value of variables used for dependency resolution
+# and the impact of refactoring
+
+# Files output can be generated through the normal resolution with executing
+# 'dependency-debug' for each board
+#
+#     BOARD=board_name make dependency-debug
+#
+# And the 'quick' version that is used by murdock with `info-boards-supported`.
+# This one currently uses only a subset of the files/values required for
+# dependency resolution.
+#
+#     DEPENDENCY_DEBUG=1 make info-boards-supported
+#
+#
+# To compare in an aggregated file, you can run in an application directory:
+#
+#    for board in $(make info-boards); do DEPENDENCY_DEBUG_OUTPUT_DIR=bin/info BOARD=${board} make dependency-debug; done; cat bin/info/* > bin/deps_info
+#    DEPENDENCY_DEBUG=1 DEPENDENCY_DEBUG_OUTPUT_DIR=bin/info-global make info-boards-supported; cat bin/info-global/* > bin/deps_info-boards-supported
+#    # And compare both files
+#    diff -u bin/deps_info bin/deps_info-boards-supported
+#
+# And when comparing two revisions, include the revision in the file names
+
+.PHONY: dependency-debug
+# Only generate the dependencies when the board is not disabled
+# This will allow comparing with the output of `info-boards-supported` more easily
+dependency-debug:
+ifneq (,$(filter-out $(BOARD_BLACKLIST),$(filter $(if $(BOARD_WHITELIST),$(BOARD_WHITELIST), %),$(BOARD))))
+	$(call file_save_dependencies_variables,dependencies_info)
+	@:
+else
+	@echo Skipping $(BOARD) is not whitelisted or blacklisted
+endif
+
+DEPENDENCY_DEBUG_OUTPUT_DIR ?= $(CURDIR)
+
+# Save variables that are used for parsing dependencies
+_DEPS_DEBUG_VARS += BOARD CPU CPU_MODEL CPU_FAM
+_DEPS_DEBUG_VARS += FEATURES_PROVIDED _FEATURES_PROVIDED_SORTED FEATURES_REQUIRED _FEATURES_REQUIRED_SORTED FEATURES_OPTIONAL FEATURES_USED FEATURES_MISSING FEATURES_CONFLICT FEATURES_CONFLICTING
+_DEPS_DEBUG_VARS += USEMODULE DEFAULT_MODULE DISABLE_MODULE
+DEPS_DEBUG_VARS ?= $(_DEPS_DEBUG_VARS)
+
+_FEATURES_PROVIDED_SORTED = $(sort $(FEATURES_PROVIDED))
+_FEATURES_REQUIRED_SORTED = $(sort $(FEATURES_REQUIRED))
+
+file_save_dependencies_variables = $(call file_save_variable,$(DEPENDENCY_DEBUG_OUTPUT_DIR)/$1_$(BOARD),$(DEPS_DEBUG_VARS))
+# Remove file before to be sure appending is started with an empty file
+file_save_variable = $(shell mkdir -p $(dir $1); rm -f $1)$(foreach v,$2,$(file >>$1,$(call _print_var,$v)))
+
+# Remove spaces in case of empty value
+# Remove spaces around value as it happens
+_print_var = $(strip $1 = $(strip $($1)))
diff --git a/makefiles/info-global.inc.mk b/makefiles/info-global.inc.mk
index 0160237b15eb..b3a97394a250 100644
--- a/makefiles/info-global.inc.mk
+++ b/makefiles/info-global.inc.mk
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ define board_missing_features
     BOARDS_FEATURES_MISSING += "$(1) $$(FEATURES_MISSING)"
     BOARDS_WITH_MISSING_FEATURES += $(1)
   endif
+
+  ifneq (,$$(DEPENDENCY_DEBUG))
+    $$(call file_save_dependencies_variables,dependencies_info-boards-supported)
+  endif
 endef
 
 BOARDS := $(filter $(if $(BOARD_WHITELIST), $(BOARD_WHITELIST), %), $(BOARDS))