Re: Packages depending on libncurses5 but not build-depending on libncurses-dev

2011-10-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-19 23:06 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Recently the readline-dev package and its GPL2 variant > libreadline-gplv2-dev dropped their dependencies on libncurses5-dev. > This prompted me to look for packages that currently depend on > libncurses5 but do not build-depend on libncurses5-dev o

Re: Packages depending on libncurses5 but not build-depending on libncurses-dev

2011-10-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-21 12:13 +0200, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 08:48:20PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> Actually, just adding the build dependency is not the best solution in >> such cases, since you'll get a spurious dependency on libncurses5 >> (dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency

Re: Packages depending on libncurses5 but not build-depending on libncurses-dev

2011-10-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 08:48:20PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-10-20 14:05 +0200, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:06:20PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> Colin Watson > >>spectemu > > > > Fixed in 0.94a-13, thanks. > > Actually, just adding the build dependency is

Re: Packages depending on libncurses5 but not build-depending on libncurses-dev

2011-10-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-20 14:05 +0200, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:06:20PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> Colin Watson >>spectemu > > Fixed in 0.94a-13, thanks. Actually, just adding the build dependency is not the best solution in such cases, since you'll get a spurious dependency o

Re: Packages depending on libncurses5 but not build-depending on libncurses-dev

2011-10-20 Thread Iain Lane
Hi, On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:06:20PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Recently the readline-dev package and its GPL2 variant > libreadline-gplv2-dev dropped their dependencies on libncurses5-dev. > […] > > In the end I found 58 such packages on i386 in unstable/experimental, > all but two of which

Re: Packages depending on libncurses5 but not build-depending on libncurses-dev

2011-10-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:06:20PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Colin Watson >spectemu Fixed in 0.94a-13, thanks. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Packages depending on libncurses5 but not build-depending on libncurses-dev

2011-10-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2011-10-20 00:03 +0200, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Yup, binary-only. I believe the dependency is present in the binary >> that we get from upstream, and no -dev packages are used since we don't >> build the binary. > You may be missing some library build dependencies, thou

Re: Packages depending on libncurses5 but not build-depending on libncurses-dev

2011-10-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-20 00:03 +0200, Russ Allbery wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >> The two exceptions are [...] nvidia-cuda-toolkit (non-free, >> binary-only(?)). > > Yup, binary-only. I believe the dependency is present in the binary that > we get from upstream, and no -dev packages are used since we d

Re: Packages depending on libncurses5 but not build-depending on libncurses-dev

2011-10-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Sven Joachim writes: > The two exceptions are [...] nvidia-cuda-toolkit (non-free, > binary-only(?)). Yup, binary-only. I believe the dependency is present in the binary that we get from upstream, and no -dev packages are used since we don't build the binary. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)