On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 11:34:44AM +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Ron wrote: > > It does seem sane that we should make this an explicit build dep, and also > > _force_ the use of system expat. Right now it's doing it opportunistically > > (though we do force most of the other external deps that way already), but > > that would be a problem if some arch didn't have expat or didn't drag it > > in indirectly like this... > > It seems to be present everywhere, and doing it will prevent issues like this > in > the future so I'd go with it.
Yes sorry, I saw that was ambiguous after I'd sent it, the "problem" I was referring to was exactly that this may happen "accidentally" in the future if we don't do this and the existing deps stop depending on expat. If the system lib didn't build on some arch, then neither would the embedded one, so we gain nothing of value by not insisting on the system one. The expat dep is just more recent than that of the other libs we force system use of, so it seems to have slipped under the radar until now. I've already talked to Ryan about it on #d-d and left a note about doing that in #560917 now (the same bug for wx2.8). Cheers, Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
