FS#13081 - [wpa_supplicant] versioned makedepends on kernel26 ?

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Xavier (shining) - Sunday, 01 February 2009, 16:52 GMT
Last edited by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Sunday, 29 March 2009, 12:25 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

the PKGBUILD has a versioned makedepends on kernel26 :
makedepends=('kernel26>=2.6.27' 'kernel26<2.6.28')

This is outdated now with kernel 2.6.28, but also I am not sure if a versioned dep makes sense here and how it is useful.
What about just : makedepends=(kernel26) if the kernel is indeed required to build this package?
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Closed by  Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Sunday, 29 March 2009, 12:25 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Wednesday, 11 February 2009, 19:50 GMT
If the package has kernel modules, the versioned dep is needed. I imagine this is fixed now, but didn't check - cleaning up old bugs
Comment by Xavier (shining) - Wednesday, 11 February 2009, 20:00 GMT
Here are the deps :
makedepends=('kernel26>=2.6.27' 'kernel26<2.6.28')
depends=('openssl' 'dbus-core>=1.2.4')

If the package has kernel modules, it should have versioned *depends*, not *makedepends*.

It is not fixed, not even in trunk.
Comment by Nathanael Schaeffer (john_schaf) - Sunday, 29 March 2009, 09:44 GMT
Hello,

I see this as a true problem :
If wpa_supplicant gets updated and not the kernel (because, eg it is on the IgnorePkg list) we run into problems.
It's what seems to have recently happened to me ...
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Sunday, 29 March 2009, 12:24 GMT
This makedepend has been removed in the testing version, I should look into moving that soon (getting too few feedback from users and devs). Anyway, this is not an issue anymore.

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