Bug#787809: java-package: please add gcc and build-essential as dependencies

[tony mancill]

On 06/05/2015 03:21 AM, Fabrizio Regalli wrote:
> Package: java-package
> Version: 0.59
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> 
> Hi,
> 
> during the creation of java package provided by java-package software on
> a pretty new Debian 8 box, I encountered the following error: 
> 
> dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Debian Java Maintainers <pkg-java-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> sh: 1: gcc: not found
> dpkg-architecture: warning: couldn't determine gcc system type, falling
> back to default (native compilation)
> 
> solved with 'apt-get install gcc' and
> 
> ...
> dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: build-essential:native
> ...
> 
> solved with 'apt-get install build-essential'
> What I'd like to suggest is to add those packages as dependencies
> Attached you can find a patch - feel free to add at your convenience.

Hello Fabrizio,

Thank you for the patch.  I didn't catch this in the last round of
dependency updates because pbuilder chroots always have build-essential
installed, and build-essential already depends on gcc.   Note that gcc
is already in the Recommends for java-package, and that the first
warning you are referencing is just a warning.  You can refer to these
bug reports for prior discussion of the gcc issue [1], [2].  Regarding
the issue with dpkg-checkbuilddeps, again, that package already
recommends build-essential - perhaps recommends isn't strong enough.

However, for java-package, I don't really agree that requiring gcc is
overly heavy-weight in the overall scheme of things.  It's not as if
users will want to run make-jpkg on every system in a cluster, and so
requiring gcc seems nominal.  I'll give it some more thought, but
suspect it's best to depend on build-essential and be done with it.

Cheers,
tony

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=281766
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=405814

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