On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 17:35 +1000, Martin Pool wrote: > Hi, > > As original upstream I'm -0 on this patch. Just for clarification: you are neutral? > > <http://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/[email protected]#distcc> > doesn't show any warnings that are obviously connected with linking > against gnome. Which ones are you talking about?
https://buildd.debian.org/~brlink/packages/d/distcc.html I-shlibs-useless-link dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libgconf-2.so.4 could be avoided if "debian/distccmon-gnome/usr/bin/distccmon-gnome" were not uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols). and a bunch more sorry, this isn't lintian, but i did see it from the DPTS page http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/distcc.html > > I haven't touched this in many years, but istr that linking against > the gnome libraries does give some better behaviour wrt window manager > or session manager integration. The larger environment may have > changed since then. Does removing the dependencies really help > anything much? I suppose it might on xfce-oriented installs. > I actually looked at the (very short) source, and it really didn't seem like it made much of a difference. Alot of these dependancies are obsolete gnome 2 libraries, and it would be good to not depend on them as much as possible. > Also, *ridiculous, *extraneous (though I suppose they're not actually > going in to the tree.) They are being linked according to the build log -Shawn Landden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
