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Bug#840782: marked as done (gnulib: please demote unnecessary dependencies to recommends)

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regarding gnulib: please demote unnecessary dependencies to recommends
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Package: gnulib
Version: 20140202+stable-2
Severity: wishlist

gnulib has a long list of dependencies. Most of them look like they are
not actually required for using check-module or gnulib-tool. For
instance, gnulib-tool seems to work just fine without bison or gperf.

Looking at gnulib-tool, it seems like none of the dependencies is
required to run it. Would it be sensible to just move all (or most) of
them from Depends to Recommends?

The actual need behind that suggestion is that gnulib currently cannot
satisfy other packages' cross build dependencies, because it is not
marked Multi-Arch: foreign. As long as it depends on build-essential or
bison[1], it cannot be marked such. After demoting those dependencies to
Recommends, it can be marked.

Helmut

[1] bison is currently wrongly marked Multi-Arch: foreign.

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Version: 20200105~a7903da-1

This should be fixed with the upload of new gnulib snpashot.

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Boyuan Yang

On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 21:25:48 +0200 Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> wrote:
> Package: gnulib
> Version: 20140202+stable-2
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> gnulib has a long list of dependencies. Most of them look like they are
> not actually required for using check-module or gnulib-tool. For
> instance, gnulib-tool seems to work just fine without bison or gperf.
> 
> Looking at gnulib-tool, it seems like none of the dependencies is
> required to run it. Would it be sensible to just move all (or most) of
> them from Depends to Recommends?
> 
> The actual need behind that suggestion is that gnulib currently cannot
> satisfy other packages' cross build dependencies, because it is not
> marked Multi-Arch: foreign. As long as it depends on build-essential or
> bison[1], it cannot be marked such. After demoting those dependencies to
> Recommends, it can be marked.
> 
> Helmut
> 
> [1] bison is currently wrongly marked Multi-Arch: foreign.
> 
>

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