Re: Changing fink-obsolete-packages to RuntimeDepends

On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:15:43 +0200, Max Horn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I would like to suggest to all package authors using
>   Depends: fink-obsolete-packages
> in an obsolete splitoff, that they switch to
>   Depends: fink (>= 0.32)
>   RuntimeDepends: fink-obsolete-packages
> instead. This way, building the non-obsolete package does not cause 
> fink-obsolete-packages to be installed even though you don't use any 
> obsolete splitoffs. 
>
> Example: My package "wireshark" has an obsolete splitoff 
> "wireshark-ssl". In previous versions, whenever you updated 
> wireshark, it would also install fink-obsolete-packages, even though 
> wireshark itself is not obsolete. 
>
> In the new 1.6.6-1 release, I performed the change described above. 
> Now, updating wireshark does not cause fink-obsolete-packages to be 
> installed. Only trying to install or update the obsolete 
> wireshark-ssl splitoff will do that. 
>
>
> Any objections to me proposing that to a wider audience on fink-devel?

Great idea! Please add notes to the fink-obsolete-packages DescUsage 
and maybe also the associated wiki page (Homepage for the f-o-p 
package). 

As I understand it, the .info RuntimeDepends is translated into a 
Depends entry during the build process, so it would only need to be

  BuildDepends: fink (>= 0.32)

rather than Depends because there's no new feature needed at runtime. 
That's consistent with the validator test as well--when I don't have 
that, I get

  Error: use of RuntimeDepends requires declaring a BuildDepends on 
fink (>= 0.31.99.git) or higher. 

That should probably be adjusted to 0.32 instead of the weird (to 
normal users:) .99.git prerelease versioning. 

dan

  --
Daniel Macks
[email protected]



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