Re: request: check installability of Depends before building
On 12/03/2017 07:38 PM, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
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> على السبت 2 كانون الأول 2017 06:14، كتب Julien Cristau:
>> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 00:40:12 -0400, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
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>>> ~~~https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-med/sga.git/tree/debian/control
>>> Priority: optional
>>> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10),
>>> dh-autoreconf,
>>> libsparsehash-dev,
>>> zlib1g-dev | libz-dev,
>>> libbamtools-dev,
>>> gawk,
>>> help2man,
>>> # Run-Time Depends
>>> # (to prevent building on architectures where it won't be installable)
>>> samtools,
>>> python,
>>> python-ruffus,
>>> python-pysam
>>> Standards-Version: 4.1.0
>>> ~~~
>>>
>>> ...which is an abuse of the build-depends field since those at the
>>> bottom are not actually needed for building the package.
>>>
>> I think this is actually a reasonable use of build-depends.
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> How? They are packages not needed during the build process. Do you think
> this needs a special build profile?
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No, I don't? What problem are you actually trying to solve?
Cheers,
Julien
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