Re: RFC: packages that can be installed by the user but not used as build dependencies
On Tue Aug 20, 2024 at 12:17 AM BST, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> But users would love to have something like 'qt6-full-dev'. And the
> reason we never provided them with this meta-package is that package
> maintainers would use it almost everywhere, dragging the whole Qt
> installation on each package depending on it... This is a _huge_ waste
> of resources and buildd time (or is it not??)
I think it would be better to use social methods to prevent maintainers
from doing this, rather than technical ones.
> At one point I thought of adding a Lintian test checking for this kind
> of usage, but first and foremost I would like to know if you think
> this is a viable/acceptable idea, maybe even adding a special section
> in our policy.
I like the idea of a Lintian check, assuming Lintian accepts checks
which don't correspond to Policy. I'm not sure it makes sense to try
and encode this restriction in Policy itself.
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