Bug#866731: gnss-sdr: Bogus build dependency on libc6

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org>]

Control: severity -1 important

On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 11:37:11AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Source: gnss-sdr
> Version: 0.0.8-1
> Severity: serious
> Justification: breaks build dependencies
> 
> Hello!
> 
> src:gnss-sdr has a bogus build dependency on libc6 which is not
> allowed for two reasons:
> 
>  a) libc6 is not the correct package required for building
>     gnss-sdr, libc6-dev would be.
>  b) libc6-dev is also pulled in through "build-essential"
>     which is always present during build.
> 
> Please remove "libc6" from Build-Depends completely. It blocks
> the build on multiple architectures like alpha, kfreebsd-* and
> hurd-*.
> 
> Please refer to Debian Policy, section 7.7 [1].

I am lowering the severity of this bug:

This was clearly a bug (and already fixed in unstable),
but it is not a release critical issue that would cause
problems on any release architectures and where the fix
should be backported to stretch.

> Thanks,
> Adrian
>...

cu
Adrian

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