[SRU][BIONIC][PATCH v3 3/4] UBUNTU: [Debian] Remove binutils-dev build dependency

Quentin Monnet quentin.monnet at netronome.com
Wed Nov 20 11:48:22 UTC 2019


From: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com>

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1774815

This keeps giving us problems with introducing unwanted binary
dependencies in linux-tools. These tools will work without these
dependencies, albeit with somewhat reduced functionality. Aside
from that I can't see that this dependency is needed, so let's
try removing it.

Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com>
(backported from commit 721d5f0c58073e6133db5dc05cf46200170fd80a)
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet at netronome.com>
---
 debian.master/control.stub.in | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/debian.master/control.stub.in b/debian.master/control.stub.in
index 0afc7e6219a7..0fca6d2ddbc6 100644
--- a/debian.master/control.stub.in
+++ b/debian.master/control.stub.in
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ Build-Depends:
  automake <!stage1>,
  libtool <!stage1>,
  uuid-dev <!stage1>,
- binutils-dev <!stage1>,
  libnuma-dev [amd64 arm64 i386 ppc64el s390x] <!stage1>,
  dkms <!stage1>,
  wget <!stage1>,
-- 
2.17.1




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