Monday 18 April 2016

Re: Changes to build-dependency handling in Ubuntu xenial beyond

Steve,

On 04/08/2016 12:39 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
...    Thanks to some stellar work by Dimitri Ledkov and Colin Watson, and as  discussed on ubuntu-devel over the past couple of months[1,2], a change has  been landed to Launchpad and the archive reports[3] to allow packages in  main to build-depend on universe (and packages in restricted to build-depend  on either universe or multiverse).    ...    What this means for you:     - If you are building packages locally, you will want to update your build     environments for xenial and beyond to include universe in the apt     sources, to mirror Launchpad's behavior.     - If you are updating a package that carries a delta to its     build-dependencies, you will want to check if this delta can now be     dropped.  If readding the build-dependency results in a new runtime     dependency, the package will be blocked by proposed-migration in     -proposed until component mismatches are resolved; you will then need     to either re-add the delta, or follow the MIR process[4].  

I think I need some clarification on this point.  The way I interpret this is as follows:
  1. We are able to build-depend packages in Main on Universe, such that any Universe compile-time dependencies are no longer needed to be dropped for a package to be in Main.  But...

  2. If such build-dependencies then introduce new dependencies on the built binaries, the runtime-dependency packages of which are necessary in the built binaries must be in Main.

Is this an accurate interpretation of the points made in your email, or am I misreading what you are stating?


Thomas