Hi Thomas,
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 02:00:43PM -0400, Thomas Ward wrote:
> 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?
You've got it exactly.
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