Re: libcroco and xz

[David Holland <dholland-pkgusers%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 11:22:49PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 01:15:22AM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 >  > On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 11:10:38PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 >  > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 12:33:04AM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 >  > >  > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 07:31:40PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 >  > >  > >  > The problem I have with the commit is that it also hides the 
 > reverse
 >  > >  > >  > case. A dependency is declared as build time only, used by a 
 > dependency
 >  > >  > >  > as full dependency, but explicitly linked against. I'm more 
 > inclined to
 >  > >  > >  > care about that case than the reverse.
 >  > >  > > 
 >  > >  > > I think that's less important. If it's an indirect dependency, 
 > it'll
 >  > >  > > always be present; the only way it'll fail at runtime is if an 
 > update
 >  > >  > > to libxml2 changes it to longer bring in xz. However, this will 
 > result
 >  > >  > > (if handled correctly) in xz being removed from xz's bl3.mk and
 >  > >  > > libcroco being revbumped and rebuilt, and then the liblzma NEEDED
 >  > >  > > entry will go away in the new build. IOW, it won't fail, so 
 > there's no
 >  > >  > > point worrying about it.
 >  > >  > 
 >  > >  > If we want to do that (I'm mildly opposed, but I agree that this will
 >  > >  > hit us a lot more often), I think the correct approach is to expand 
 > the
 >  > >  > list of full dependencies once. So move the pkg_info -r calls out of 
 > the
 >  > >  > AWK script and provide a second version of the .depends file that
 >  > >  > contains the full list of packages we are willing to accept shared
 >  > >  > linking against.
 >  > > 
 >  > > That sounds fine; however, can we have obache's version back first so
 >  > > we don't end up with pointlessly broken packages in 2012Q2?
 >  > 
 >  > Expanding the list obsoletes obache's change completely.
 > 
 > Sure, but is it going to get done in the next half hour?

For those following along at home: Joerg kindly volunteered to take
care of it properly, and an exception to the freeze has been granted
so it can be committed in a day or two.

thanks, Joerg :-)

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost