[Pkg-alsa-devel] alsa-lib, and the libcxxtools-dev build dependency.

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Luke Yelavich [120208 10:53 +1100]:

> Hi Elima,
> I'm currently working with Jordi to reduce the Ubuntu alsa delta,
> and one change that Ubuntu currently carries is dropping of
> libcxxtools-dev from alsa-lib's build dependencies, as it is in
> our universe archive, not in main where alsa-lib exists, so
> universe packages cannot be used by main packages.
> 
> Anyway, I have been digging through the Debian package and
> alsa-lib source to find references to cxxtools, and I have also
> checked the dependencies of the Debian packages. Not one binary
> .deb package has a dependency on libcxxtools, and I couldn't find
> any references to it in the ALSA source. I also note that in the
> debian changelog, you didn't give any further explanation beyond
> stating that you added it to Build-Depends, svn revision 2165,
> debian upload version 1.0.19-1.

I can't remember the reason why it went into alsa-libs dependencies.
Grepping all the emails in our BTS doesn't gave me a hint. Else there
no need to use with our binaries and it seems to be save to remove
it form the dependencies.

Elimar

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