Bug#901887: build-depend should not list xtem

Jeremy Bicha jbicha at debian.org
Tue Jun 19 22:08:34 BST 2018


On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 4:20 PM, Phillip Susi <psusi at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> I noticed while trying to build glib that it claims to build-depend on
> xterm, which is insane; no package should require xterm to build.  I
> forced it to build anyway without xterm installed, and it built fine, so
> this dependency should be removed.

The xterm dependency is only used for the build tests and it's marked
correctly for that.

But we could add an alternate dependency of gnome-terminal.

https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/glib/blob/debian/master/debian/control.in#L25
https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/glib/blob/debian/master/gio/gdesktopappinfo.c#L2476

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha



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