Hi Thomas, On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 02:00:43PM -0400, Thomas Ward wrote: > On 04/08/2016 12:39 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Thanks to some stellar work by Dimitri Ledkov and Colin Watson, and as > > discussed on ubuntu-devel over the past couple of months[1,2], a change has > > been landed to Launchpad and the archive reports[3] to allow packages in > > main to build-depend on universe (and packages in restricted to build-depend > > on either universe or multiverse). > > What this means for you: > > - If you are building packages locally, you will want to update your build > > environments for xenial and beyond to include universe in the apt > > sources, to mirror Launchpad's behavior. > > - If you are updating a package that carries a delta to its > > build-dependencies, you will want to check if this delta can now be > > dropped. If readding the build-dependency results in a new runtime > > dependency, the package will be blocked by proposed-migration in > > -proposed until component mismatches are resolved; you will then need > > to either re-add the delta, or follow the MIR process[4]. > I think I need some clarification on this point. The way I interpret > this is as follows: > 1. We are able to build-depend packages in Main on Universe, such that > any Universe compile-time dependencies are no longer needed to be > dropped for a package to be in Main. But... > 2. If such build-dependencies then introduce new dependencies on the > built binaries, the runtime-dependency packages of which are > necessary in the built binaries must be in Main. > Is this an accurate interpretation of the points made in your email, or > am I misreading what you are stating? You've got it exactly. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected]
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