Bug#374289: libbonoboui2-dev: uninstallable: conflicting depends.

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 06:18:01PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2006, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > >     grep /usr/lib/libtasn1.la /usr/lib/libbonoboui-2.la
> > If I rebuild it now, it's actually not there anymore.  So you can
> > just remove it.
> 
>  I disagree, you've rebuilt it on your arch but the change you requested
>  impacts all arches.  The depends I added manually also affected all
>  arches.

I have no idea why you think you need to add depends on this
package for it.  There is nothing in your package making direct
use of it.  The only reason it ends up in your .la file is that
some other indirect dependency of you needs it.  That package
should get fixed instead, and you covering it up doesn't help.

>  The clean solution is to compute *.la files Depends, which I've just
>  done in SVN.

I hope you're not going to add a Depends for all the .la files
mentioned in the .la file?  This will make transitions alot
harder than they should be.  I hope that you don't do this, and
if you really think you should, then atleast make sure your
package is binNMU'able, which it currently isn't.

There is a reason why Debian's libtool has been patched, and that
is to reduce the number of Depends a package has it shouldn't
have.  And now you want to do the reverse with the -dev packages?


Kurt