Recommends of Build-Depends no longer installed

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi at gmail.com
Thu Aug 12 22:28:40 BST 2010


On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Scott James Remnant <scott at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Bug #602130 was caused by the dbus package no longer being installed on
> the buildd or by pbuilder despite being a recommends of one of the
> build-dependencies.
>
> I didn't see this change being announced, so I thought it was a good
> idea to warn everyone that this has changed.

Combined with python-kde4-dev no longer depending (just recommending)
on python-kde4, it's something to watch out for on KDE packages too.

Though I reverted that depends->recommends change in bzr, it's not in
a released package in Maverick yet.

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Mackenzie Morgan
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