Troubles with dependency changes?

[Jonathan Lange]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:33 PM, John Arbash Meinel
<john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
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> Jonathan Lange wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Bazaar 1.14 adds a new dependency, zlibg-dev. This caused us some
>> problems on Launchpad when we wanted to start rolling out the latest
>> Bazaar to our servers.
>>
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> You only need it to *build* the package. I don't think you need it to
> *run* bzr. (put in other terms "Depends:" versus "Build-Depends:")
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We build from source as part of our process.

>> What should we, the Launchpad codehosting team, do to avoid getting
>> caught out by this in future? What could the Bazaar community do to
>> help us?
>
> Pay close attention on the mailing list when I explicitly outlined this
> case? (Yes I know I send a lot of email, and this argument probably
> doesn't scale particularly well.)
>

Yeah, I figured I missed something, rather than you. I will strive to
pay more attention in future. :)

Out of curiosity, was the email sent as an announcement or as a
discussion point?

> My guess is that we just need to put something in NEWS in something like
> "Changes" that declares "to build bzr you now need the zlib development
> libs".
>

That'd be good, thanks.

jml