Bug#460121: openssh builddep on groff is too severe: only groff-base is necessary

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

tags 460121 pending
thanks

On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 08:44:10PM +0000, Martin Guy wrote:
> the build dependency on groff is unnecessary: the smaller groff-base is enough
> (I've checked this with groff-base and no groff installed, and it
> builds fine with dpkg-buildpackage -d)

Yes, quite right. This build-dependency was added before groff-base
existed.

> This would make bootstrapping of future ports slightly more linear

Well, you still have to build at least some of groff, although you can
use the scheme documented in groff's debian/README.build to make this a
bit easier. Fortunately this too can be disposed of; all that's needed
is to force the issue with ./configure --with-mantype=doc. I've made
this change in CVS now.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]