Re: Automatic elimination of useless dependencies using debhelper

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 01:40:38PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Christian Aichinger wrote: > > Yep, the program which actually removes the unnecessary needed > > entries should be seperate. My question was rather, would you accept > > a script which uses such a tool in debhelper? > > That depends. I

Re: Automatic elimination of useless dependencies using debhelper

Christian Aichinger wrote: > Yep, the program which actually removes the unnecessary needed > entries should be seperate. My question was rather, would you accept > a script which uses such a tool in debhelper? That depends. I may, for example, decide that it should just be put in dh_strip or some

Re: Automatic elimination of useless dependencies using debhelper

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 12:21:24PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Christian Aichinger wrote: > > Con's: > > * Debhelper is arch:all, thus the backend (that really strips the > > NEEDED entry) would have to be in a separate package (new > > dependency in debhelper). > > Yes, this needs to be a separ

Re: Automatic elimination of useless dependencies using debhelper

Christian Aichinger wrote: > Con's: > * Debhelper is arch:all, thus the backend (that really strips the > NEEDED entry) would have to be in a separate package (new > dependency in debhelper). Yes, this needs to be a separate package anyway, since debhelper is not intended to be the main point