Package: coreutils Version: 7.3-2 Severity: minor I was just looking at the buildd logs for coreutils, and noticed a large number of rather weird build dependencies. I ran the command dpkg-depcheck -m debuild -us -uc after modifying test-lib.sh to prevent the running of any strace-based tests (they interact badly with dpkg-depcheck), and the output was: mime-support dpatch libselinux1-dev less devscripts acl locales netbase dash libc6-i686 libnss-mdns libexpect-perl libgmp3-dev cvs libacl1-dev fakeroot dh-buildinfo ncurses-term git-core r-base-core lintian winbind gawk
Now, clearly, some of these are just from the environmental context (r-base-core, for example!) and are clearly unnecessary. But note the conspicuous absence of the build-deps: gettext (>= 0.10.37) (but this may be needed somewhere and pulled in as a dep of another package listed above) texinfo (>= 4.2) groff (which incidentally pulls in a big chunk of x11 stuff) libattr1-dev | not+linux-gnu (might be needed somewhere but pulled in as a dep of another package listed above) libselinux1-dev (>= 1.32) | not+linux-gnu (ditto) gperf bison I may be wrong in my assessment (haven't checked it all in a chroot - sorry), but I was surprised to see libx11-6 et al being pulled in as build-deps for coreutils! Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
