Re: possible MBF: automatically detecting unused build dependencies

[Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>]

On Monday, July 28, 2014 08:54:29 Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Monday, July 28, 2014 12:07:58 Johannes Schauer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Quoting gregor herrmann (2014-07-28 11:45:14)
> > 
> > > > ==> libxml-parser-perl_2.41-1.arch-all.unusedbd <==
> > > > sharutils=1:4.14-2
> > > 
> > > Already fixed in 2.41-2.
> > 
> > thanks!
> > 
> > > I assume you're planning to do a new run before actually filing the
> > > bugs?
> > 
> > I cannot do a new run before September because I'm moving places twice
> > within the next month and thus do not have a stable always-on machine
> > available during that time. The only thing that could change this would be
> > if I found easily accessible compute time elsewhere (I asked at
> > debian-qa@l.d.o:
> > http://lists.debian.org/20140726090503.4150.56356@hoothoot )
> > 
> > I thought that hardly any build dependencies get removed over time so that
> > it would still be appropriate to fill bugreports for the June results now.
> > 
> > If that would not be appreciated then I'll re-run the whole thing once I
> > settled in at our new place some time in September.
> 
> It is quite common for people to fix things based on the initial discussion
> about an impending MBF, so I think it would be less than impolite to not
> acknowledge that by filing bugs on obsolete data.
> 
> The two packages that I show up for are fixed as well.
> 
> Scott K

... less than polite ...

That'll teach me to write to -devel while still on the first cup of coffee.

Scott K