FS#49630 - [libidn] [libtasn1] make texinfo a make dependency

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by xduugu (xduugu) - Thursday, 09 June 2016, 10:49 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Thursday, 28 July 2016, 20:20 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Ronald van Haren (pressh)
Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Felix Yan (felixonmars)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
This is not so much related to texinfo itself, but to the packages that depend on it.

I would love to remove the texinfo package (which includes the hooks for updating the info database) on a low-end system running Arch Linux (actually archlinux ARM, but that doesn't matter, because the dependencies are the same). Unfortunately, several packages require texinfo as runtime dependency, most importantly two libraries, libidn and libtasn1, which are indirect dependencies of pacman and systemd.

From my understanding, texinfo should only be required at package creation and for reading info pages. So, theoretically, it shouldn't be an issue to make the runtime a buildtime dependency. Or is there another reason I am missing that requires texinfo at runtime?

Additional info:
* texinfo 6.1-4
* libidn 1.32-1
* libtasn1 4.8-2
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Thursday, 28 July 2016, 20:20 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  libidn 1.33-1 and libtasn 4.9-2
Comment by xduugu (xduugu) - Thursday, 09 June 2016, 10:57 GMT
I just noticed that the hooks rebuild is still in progress. So that might be the reason why the dependency cannot be dropped right now.

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