On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 12:32:06AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:16:16PM -0600, Sam TH wrote:
> > > $ lintian --version
> > > Lintian v1.20.6
> > > $ lintian uf-view_1.2-2_i386.changes
> > > E: uf-view source: package-uses-debhelper-but-lacks-build-depends
> >
> > Fixed, I think. I removed every possibly related package I could find
> > from my chroot, and then tried to build uf-view. I had to ask apt-get
> > to install only: libgnome-dev, libghttp-dev and debhelper, but those
> > brought in close to 50 other packages (all of X and GNOME, for
> > example). Are those three all that is needed for Build-Depends?
>
> >From current policy:
>
> When specifying the set of build-time dependencies, one should list
> only those packages explicitly required by the build. It is not
> necessary to list packages which are required merely because some
> other package in the list of build-time dependencies depends on them.
> The reason is that dependencies change, and you should list only those
> _you_ need. What others need is their business.
>
> Hopefully this will answer your question.
Well, sort of. For the packe in question, it does. But say there was
a package that depended on both GLib and GNOME (say, by including
gnome.h and glib.h). If, at some later point, GNOME no longer
depended on GLib, then just having Build-Depends: libgnome-dev would
no longer be correct. But currently it is. What should one do in
this situation?
sam th
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