Le lundi 07 juillet 2014 à 09:07 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : > On Mon, 07 Jul 2014, Johannes Schauer wrote: > > MBF template email: > > > > --%<--------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Please consider removing the build dependencies on $foo, $bar and > > $baz > > Severity: wishlist > > Usertag: unusedbd > > User: bootst...@lists.debian.org > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > the build dependencies $foo, $bar and $baz of this source package do not > > seem > > to be needed. Neither are any of their files accessed during the build nor > > are > > their dependencies on other binary packages required. Please consider > > dropping > > those build dependencies to make bootstrapping Debian easier. > > > > You can find more detail about the procedures that were used to find this > > problem in the MBF announcement on debian-devel: $email > > -->%--------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Please don't assume that the unused build dependency is always where the > defect is. Rather, the MBF text should account for the possibility that the > unused build-dependency should have been used in the first place, but > something is broken in the build and it is being left unused.
Consider also the case when arch:all package require a build dependency on a package that only builds on some archs, to prevent the arch:all package being available on archs where its dependencies are not. nodejs and node-* packages are such an example. Jérémy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1404735139.4416.2.camel@imac.chaumes
