On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 06:09:17PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >Hi, > >Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Apologies for not responding earlier - swamped with other stuff > >I hope i showed the appropriate patience, given the low urgency >of the problem. > >> ACK. I'll sort out a dependency change for libjte* shortly. It may >> take a few days to happen, as the priorities of packages are >> *actually* set via ftpmaster overrides. > >(Now i have a new Debian term to look up. :))
:-) >Do you plan to promote libjte1 to "optional" ? That's the plan, yes. I've just uploaded with that change, and I'll ask ftpmaster to copy that to the overrides file too. >I downgraded libisofs-dev to "extra" in package VCS meanwhile. > http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-libburnia/trunk/libisofs >To get into effect with the next release and sponsored package >upload. OK, cool. >But now i wonder why there is no complaint about mismatch of >libisofs-dev and libjte-dev on > https://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php?dist=unstable&package=libisofs > >Is it because in > https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/libi/libisofs/control-1.4.0-2 >the package libisofs-dev has no libjte-dev in "Depends:" ? >libjte-dev only shows up in the "Source:" section. Exactly, yes - build-deps are different and priorities don't really matter there. >Do i have to add libjte-dev to "Depends:" of libisofs-dev ? >(If so: why does it work without this since oldstable ?) That depends, I guess - what are people going to be building with libisofs-dev? There's a lot of things that may not need libjte-dev, maybe? I'd be tempted to just add it as a Recommends: if so. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control.
