[Pkg-crosswire-devel] BibleTime now needs xiphos as a build-dependency??

[Jonathan Marsden]

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Something seems to be odd with SWORD dependencies in Debian.

I just created a fresh Debian testing VM (from the Beta1 netinst ISO),
and then did

  su -c "echo 'jonathan ALL=(ALL) ALL' >/etc/sudoers"
  sudo apt-get devscripts

to prepare the system for package creation.

I then copied in the source tree for my latest BibleTime package for
2.8.0, and tried to build it.  It failed because several dependencies
where missing, as expected.

  sudo apt-get install autotools-dev quilt cdbs libsword-dev \
    libclucene-dev poxml libboost-dev cmake zlib1g-dev \
    libcurl4-gnutls-dev libqt4-dev

should fix that.  And indeed it does... but it also pulls in xiphos,
xiphos-data and xiphos-dbg!  These are definitely not needed as build
dependencies for BibleTime :)

Did someone set libsword8 to Recommend: xiphos, or something odd like
that?  Or is apt-get in Debian now acting on Suggests: by default?

I don't think it is reasonable for libsword8 to pull in xiphos like
this, when the underlying reason for installing libsword8 is to compile
BibleTime :)

Can anyone shed any light on this, or am I just misunderstanding
something here?

Jonathan
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