Re: Trimming build dependencies
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 01:02:59PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed this in incoming:
>
> licq (1.0.3-5.1) unstable; urgency=low
> .
> * NMU with permission
> * Build with -O0 and -mieee for Alpha (Closes: #121678)
> * Remove unneccesary build-depends as they are already depended upon
> by packages which we build-depend on...ie kdelibs-dev depends on
> libqt-dev which depends on libz-dev and libpng2-dev...so don't depend
> on libqt-dev, libz-dev, or libpng2-dev since we indirectly do already.
>
> If the package does use any of these packages directly, then I think it
> should continue to build-depend on them directly. I agree that licq
> doesn't seem to use libz-dev or libpng2-dev itself, but it does use
> libqt-dev for more than licq-plugin-kde. I think policy 2.4.2 implies
> that that build-dependency should be restored.
Correct.
Julian
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