What about the removed dependencies?

[Felix Geyer]

On 08.05.2012 23:42, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> 2012/5/8 Dominique Dumont <dod at debian.org>:
>> There may be one way to measure the consequences:
>> - get the list of impacted packages with build-rdeps
>> - run sudo cowbuilder --build for each package
>>
>> This is rather simple. But it will take some bandwidth and cpu cycles.
> I did that with sdl-sound1.2, because of the low amount of packages
> depending on it, and because of it having FTBFS and thus requiring
> immediate attention.
>
> Some of those packages already FTBFS because of the same problem as
> sdl-sound1.2: gcc being switched to GCC-4.7 and causing small
> problems.  So I guess that if the maintainers are going to fix those,
> they can fix the changes introduced by sdl-sound1.2 as well.
>
> So I'm uploading a new revision now with its Build-Deps removed (which
> Felix changed in the repository a while ago).
>
> More info will follow on sdl-image.12, mixer and SDL as soon as I can
> mass-rebuild the packages.

I think we should still keep these extra dependencies as Suggests or
Recommends if we provide a static library in the package.

Felix