[Pkg-freeipa-devel] Bug#1010636: dogtag-pki: please reduce unused Build-Depends

[Helmut Grohne]

Source: dogtag-pki
Version: 11.0.3-4
User: debian-cross at lists.debian.org
Usertags: cross-satisfiability

dogtag-pki cannot be cross built from source, because its Build-Depends
are not satisfiable. The problems are numerous, so instead of looking
into them in detail, I looked for low hanging fruit: unused
Build-Depends. Since dogtag-pki is mostly reproducible (except for the
build path), there is a relatively easy technique for identifying unused
Build-Depends:
 * Build dogtag-pki
 * Build dogtag-pki with as many Build-Depends moved to Build-Conflicts
   as possible while also passing DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Use the
   same build path.
 * Verify that both builds produce bit-identical results.

So that's what I did and the following dependencies could be moved to
Build-Conflicts:
 * libjaxp1.3-java
 * libxalan2-java
 * policycoreutils
 * python3-dev
 * python3-nss

Of course, Build-Conflicts is not the aim, but it ensures that the
packages are really gone and not pulled by some other dependency for the
purpose of testing. Then, disabling tests via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck
of course may have found test dependencies. And finally, packages may
contain pre-build artifacts that are only rebuilt when the relevant
build tools are available, so we cannot just delete these packages from
Build-Depends. Some will have to stay. Some may be annotated <!nocheck>
and some can be dropped.

Can I ask you to review each of the mentioned 5 dependencies? I'd hope
that all of them can be annotated <!nocheck> or dropped entirely.

Thanks in advance

Helmut