[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#499650: Bug#499650: Bug#499650: dbus: wrong dependencies on libice6, libsm6 and libx11-6

Moritz Muehlenhoff jmm at inutil.org
Sat Oct 4 08:32:11 UTC 2008


Michael Biebl wrote:
> 
> Yeah, I misunderstood you in your first email. It is not about the
> dependency on libx11-6, but the additional/new dependency on libsm6 and
> libice6.
> 
> The problem seem to be very simple:
> configure.in:915-935
> 
> The AC_PATH_XTRA macro picks up additional X11 libs if installed and
> adds them to $X_EXTRA_LIBS.
> 
> If you install in a clean chroot, $X_EXTRA_LIBS will be empty.
> 
> If you have additional X11 dev packages installed, like libice-dev or
> libsm-dev, as Moritz seems to have, then you get this extra X11 libs
> dependencies.
> So I can only assume that Moritz didn't build the package in a clean,
> minimal chroot.

Indeed, it was my regular stable-security chroot.

> I guess we can either add build conflicts against all non-required X11
> dev packages (I'm not sure if this is viable)
> or patch out X_EXTRA_LIBS from configure.in.

I suppose patching configure.in would be best.

Cheers,
        Moritz





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