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FS#58898 - [pacman-contrib] does not list awk and gettext as dependencies but paccache requires them

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by James Cook (bonkabonka) - Wednesday, 06 June 2018, 20:18 GMT
Last edited by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Thursday, 07 June 2018, 00:15 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

paccache wants to use `gettext` and `awk` but the package does not depend on them.

Additional info:
* package version(s)

pacman-contrib-1.0.0-2

Steps to reproduce:

Start with a minimal Docker image that includes just pacman and its dependencies.

# pacman -S pacman-contrib
# paccache
/usr/sbin/paccache: line 65: gettext: command not found
==> no operation specified (use -h for help)
# paccache --dryrun --uninstalled --verbose --cachedir /arch_repo/myrepo/x86_64/ --keep 1
/usr/sbin/paccache: line 217: awk: command not found
==> no candidate packages found for pruning
This task depends upon

Closed by  Eli Schwartz (eschwartz)
Thursday, 07 June 2018, 00:15 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  We have no policy to require packages in the base group to be listed as explicit dependencies.
Comment by loqs (loqs) - Wednesday, 06 June 2018, 22:44 GMT
Both are in the base group and it is left to the maintainer to decide if such packages should be listed as dependencies or not.

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