FS#8935 - iputils build depends on package in extra

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Karolina Lindqvist (karolinali) - Saturday, 15 December 2007, 09:54 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Sunday, 05 October 2008, 15:51 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: iputils have a makdepends on package "jade" from the "extra" repository.


Additional info:
* package version(s)
20070202.3
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
This task depends upon

Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Sunday, 05 October 2008, 15:51 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  extra depends are no bug
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Sunday, 16 December 2007, 12:09 GMT
this was tolerated, that we have packages in core that have makedepends in extra,
Roman am i right here?
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 05 January 2008, 22:20 GMT
AFAIR it was the case in past (and I supported that choice), but there were talks recently that makedepends should be put in Core as well.
jade doesn't have any other dependencies so IMO it won't be a big issue if we put it in Core.
Anyway this issue is worth mentioning on dev-public ML.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 05 January 2008, 22:41 GMT
Heh, jade still depends on gcc, is unmaintained and outdated.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 09 February 2008, 12:59 GMT
I see jade is used to generate manpages. Some sidenotes:
- docbook-xsl stylesheets are referenced, which is not a makedepend either. The versioned location is hardcoded in PKGBUILD
- xsltproc is used, which belongs to libxslt. Which is also no makedepend

Looking at the age of iputils (one year old), I can hardly believe we have to generate documentation from the XML files quite often. We could generate manpages from the XML files, upload them to ftp.archlinux.org and remove the manpage generation from the PKGBUILD. Problem solved.
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 21:45 GMT
The URL for this package is also wrong. At least atm, the site is down

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