[Debichem-devel] Bug#1149310: votca: consider dropping build-dependency on librdkit-dev

[Andrius Merkys]

Source: votca
Version: 2026-3

Hello,

In preparation to address #1138824, I am looking into source packages 
declaring build-dependency on librdkit-dev. votca does not link against 
librdkit1, neither it directly uses anything from librdkit-dev. It uses 
rdkit's Python bindings, python3-rdkit, which depend on librdkit-dev.

I attempted building votca without neither of the binary packages from 
src:rdkit, and build succeeded, with sole difference being the absence 
of /usr/bin/xtp_autogen_mapping Python script and its documentation. 
This led me to a conclusion that only rdkit's Python bindings are used 
by votca.

Andrius