On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 03:59:04PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > > Maybe we should  install only the python binaries and the dependencies 
> > > marked <!nocheck>.
> > 
> > In a typical simple case all B-Ds except sphinx stuff will be <!nocheck>
> > as you don't need anything beyond the build system to "build" a pure
> > Python module.
> 
> Erm, no, you need to B-D on all runtime dependencies so they are
> correctly included in the computed python3:Depends substvar, unless
> you list these runtime dependencies explictly by hand.

Those will be installed anyway via Depends, by definition, but also in my
experience you don't always need to do one of these two things. Maybe I'm
doing it wrong and my python3:Depends are not 100% correct though.

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WBR, wRAR

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