El 21/11/22 a las 3:19, Shengjing Zhu escribió:
On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 12:03:40AM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:I've detected a bunch of Go packages which do not build from source because they use tzdata without a build-dependency. This will not happen if tzdata is installed by default, but such package is not really build-essential, so this is technically a FTBFS bug in a release architecture.tzdata's priority is required. Is this an effort to make tzdata optional?
Being "priority: required", being "essential: yes", and being build-essential are all three different things.
My intent is to keep stable free from FTBFS bugs, i.e. packages which do not follow this paragraph in policy:
"If build-time dependencies are specified, it must be possible to build the package and produce working binaries on a system with only essential and build-essential packages installed and also those required to satisfy the build-time relationships (including any implied relationships)."
As you suggest, maybe it would help if debootstrap did not install tzdata in the buildd profile (maybe I will file another bug for that), but this is completely orthogonal to my original aim, which is to have those bugs fixed in stable. That's why I asked for advice about the best way to achieve that. Can we continue on the go-pkg list?
Thanks.