Bug#554704: libpango-perl: Please remove libgtk2-perl from Build-Depends

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Ryan Niebur, Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 06:15:32PM -0800 |=-
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 10:33:41AM +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote:
> > libpango-perl has libgtk2-perl in build-depends, but is not 
> > necessary.
> > We can build a package without libgtk2-perl.
> > ( I attached build log without libgtk2-perl.)
> > libpango-perl is necessary to build libgtk2-perl. 
> > Therefore, this become loop-depends.
> > When we add new architecture in Debian, we need fix build-depends of package by
> > hand.
> > 
> > Could you have comment about this?
> > 
> 
> the reason it was there is this:
> t/PangoContext.t ..... skipped: This test needs Gtk2 >= 1.22
> 
> but, of course, your reasons make sense. will fix this.

This way we lose part of the test suite and test suites seem to have 
served us well in the past.

Would it be possible to bootstrap the new architecture with a patched 
package, while keeping the build-dependency afterwards?

Something like: build+upload a patched libpango-perl, build+upload 
libgtk2-perl, build+upload vanilla libpango-perl.

Thing is, we are very accustomed to adding build-dependencies when 
they are used in tests, and I wouldn't be surprised if libgtk2-perl 
gets added back to libpango-perl with the next upload.


-- 
dam
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