On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 5:19 AM, Charles Plessy <[email protected]> wrote: > Le Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 09:43:35AM +0200, Cristian Henzel a écrit : >> >> Well, I just noticed that autotools-dev is actually an indirect >> dependency of intltool (intltool depends on automake which depends on >> autotools-dev) so I guess if I remove autotools-dev from the dependency >> list it won't cause any harm. > > Dear Cristian, > > it is a latent bug that will make your package fail to build if intltool stops > depending on automake or if automake stops depending on autotools-dev. Your > package should build-depend on what it needs, regardless if some of these > dependancies are also satisfied on a second or higher order by other packages.
Well, I don't see where he uses autotools-dev at all. He doesn't update config.sub and config.guess manually or with the debhelper or CDBS helpers. What else is autotools-dev used for? I suppose if anything, it's automake that is not directly depending on but should. (Though the likelihood of dh-autoreconf ever not depending on automake seems slim.) Thanks, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
