Bug#901887: build-depend should not list xtem

Philip Withnall philip at tecnocode.co.uk
Tue Jun 19 21:59:24 BST 2018


On Tue, 2018-06-19 at 16:20 -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Package: glib2.0
> Version: 2.56.1-2
> 
> I noticed while trying to build glib that it claims to build-depend
> on
> xterm, which is insane; no package should require xterm to build.  I
> forced it to build anyway without xterm installed, and it built fine,
> so
> this dependency should be removed.

I suspect it was needed from before the following two upstream bugs
were fixed, and is now safe to remove:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786580
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790914

Philip
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