Bug#764113: xen: build-dependency on libgnutls-dev

[Andreas Metzler]

Control: reassign -1 xen 4.4.1-2
Control: retitle -1 xen: superfluous build-dependency on libgnutls-dev

On 2014-10-05 Bastian Blank <waldi at debian.org> wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 libgnutls-dev

> On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 03:57:50PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> xen build-depends on libgnutls-dev which is
>> - scheduled for removal
>> - and (somehow related) uninstallable.

> Nice, but this is not a problem in xen but in libgnutls-dev.
> Re-assigning.

Hello,

Eh, no. xen build-depends on a package that will not be shipped in
jessie.

Also afaict the GnuTLS build-dependency is not used. Rebuilding xen
with or without the current GnuTLS development package
(libgnutls28-dev) installed generates binary packages with identical
dependencies.

ametzler at argenau:/tmp/GRDEP/xen-4.4.1$ grep -rli gnutls
debian/templates/control.source.in
debian/control

cu Andreas
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