[Pkg-ace-devel] Bug#346607: Processed: xlibs-dev nmu ace

[Steve Langasek]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 11:22:10AM +0100, Thomas Girard wrote:
> Hello Amaya,

> >tags 346607 pending patch
> >I intend to NMU ace to the 5day queue, if you don't oppose.
> >Patches provided by Victor Seva are attached.

> I do apologize for the late reply. Somehow your mail to 346607 at b.d.o
> didn't get forwarded to this mailing list, and thus I did not read it
> until now :-(

> In the meantime, the bug was fixed in our repo [1] but no new package
> was built. Never mind, my fault, I should have replied the bug report
> when it was sent.

> So I don't oppose the NMU :-) But I have a question anyway: why was
> x-dev dependency added to the `Build-Depends:' field ? As `libxt-dev`
> already depends on it (via e.g. libx11-dev), I don't think it should be
> marked twice. Am I missing something ?

You use headers from x-dev directly; you shouldn't rely on transitive
dependencies to pull it in, as those are subject to change.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
vorlon at debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/
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