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

Ryan Niebur ryan at debian.org
Fri Nov 6 02:15:32 UTC 2009


On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 10:33:41AM +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote:
> Package: libpango-perl
> Version: 1.221-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 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.

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