On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 07:08:18AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 12:03:57AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > There's no reason that kaptain should build-depend on libxinerama-dev; this > > should be a dependency of libqt3-mt-dev instead. Which it will be, once > > libqt3-mt-dev goes through the C++ ABI transition. > > > > It would be a good idea for kaptain to be updated to the most recent Debian > > version of libtool, in any case, so that kaptain doesn't end up pulling in > > dependencies on arbitrary libraries it doesn't use.
> I thought that kaptain should build-depend on libxinerama-dev because > its configure script tested for it. How can I tell whether a package > should depend on libxinerama-dev or not? Yes, I noticed that in the build log; however, that's not the source of the build failure here, and therefore not the source of the RC bug. *If* it's intended that kaptain use libXinerama on Debian, it's appropriate to add the build-dependency; if kaptain's use of libXinerama is unimportant and just a side effect of qt3's dependency on it, then there's no reason to add a build-dependency. Either way, the actual RCness there is induced by Qt, plus kaptain's current use of libtool. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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