Bug#1130949: ipxe build-depends on itself across any/all

[Miao Wang]

> 2026年3月17日 00:47，Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> 写道：
> 
> On 16.03.2026 17:50, Miao Wang wrote:
> ..
>>> Can't we move all tests to the autopkgtest framework,
>>> instead of running them at build time?
>> Functionality tests has already been moved to autopkgtest,
>> The tests left in the building process is unit tests, which
>> cannot be carried out without the built object files, which
>> will not go into the packages.
> 
> Ah.  I thought everything needed is included in the package.
> I was wrong.  Ok.
> 
> Now I wonder.
> 
> qemu depends on ipxe-qemu, - it refuses to start unless there's
> romfile= override for pxe/efi roms.  I thought about reducing
> the Depends here to Recommends, but nope, Recommends wont work.
> And ipxe tests do override that.

Why recommends won't work? I believe that if the dependency is
reduced here, we can break the loop.

Cheers,

Miao Wang