Package: lynx-cur Version: 2.8.7dev10-2.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch jaunty
In Ubuntu, we try to keep the size of our "main" component under control, and packages in main are only allowed to build-depend or depend on other packages in main; this lets us use main as a set of packages on which we offer better-quality support and so on. As a result I found myself looking at the long build-dependency list of lynx-cur; specifically, we don't yet have ncompress in main and I was wondering if we really needed it. Apparently you added this along with a number of other dependencies in version 2.8.7dev7-2 so that configure would detect paths correctly. It seems that a build-dependency isn't actually necessary for this; you can get configure to detect the path you want by means of an environment variable. I've attached the patch I applied in Ubuntu to remove the need for the build-dependency on ncompress, but perhaps you'd like to extend this to other build-dependencies that aren't truly needed at build time? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
diff -u lynx-cur-2.8.7dev10/debian/rules lynx-cur-2.8.7dev10/debian/rules --- lynx-cur-2.8.7dev10/debian/rules +++ lynx-cur-2.8.7dev10/debian/rules @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ configure-stamp: patch-stamp dh_testdir # Add here commands to configure the package. + COMPRESS=/usr/bin/compress \ ./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib \ --sysconfdir=/etc/lynx-cur --localstatedir=/var \ --libdir=/etc/lynx-cur --enable-8bit-toupper --enable-externs \ diff -u lynx-cur-2.8.7dev10/debian/control lynx-cur-2.8.7dev10/debian/control --- lynx-cur-2.8.7dev10/debian/control +++ lynx-cur-2.8.7dev10/debian/control @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Section: web Priority: extra Maintainer: Atsuhito KOHDA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.1.16), dpatch, po-debconf, libncursesw5-dev, zlib1g-dev, gettext, libgnutls-dev, zip, unzip, sharutils, bzip2, ncompress, telnet, openssh-client, exim4-daemon-light | mail-transport-agent +Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.1.16), dpatch, po-debconf, libncursesw5-dev, zlib1g-dev, gettext, libgnutls-dev, zip, unzip, sharutils, bzip2, telnet, openssh-client, exim4-daemon-light | mail-transport-agent Standards-Version: 3.7.2 Package: lynx-cur
