Am Dienstag, den 07.12.2010, 17:31 +0100 schrieb Loïc Minier: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2010, Daniel Leidert wrote: > > pbuilder depends on gcc, so it pulls in a compiler on a system, where I > > don't > > want to have a compiler for everybody. But why does it depend on gcc? There > > is no gcc dependency for (c)debootstrap like stated in the changelog entry > > for > > 0.10. Further the gcc dependency had been removed in version 0.187. There is > > no information about why it has been re-added nor when? Can this dependency > > please be dropped (fortunately already for squeeze) or downgraded? > > This might be for dpkg-dev/dpkg-source which guesses the host system by > looking at gcc -dumpmachine; see /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/Arch.pm
Well, dpkg-dev recommends gcc, but pbuilder does not even depend on dpkg-dev. It recommends devscripts, which then depends on dpkg-dev. But if using --use-pdebuild-internal then the existence of these packages is IMO not required. I can't see a reason for this dependency and the changelog doesn't tell, why it had been re-added. IMO it is safe to downgrade this dependency to a recommendation (like dpkg-dev does) or drop it completely for pbuilder. Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
