On 18/11/2021 12:28, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote:
It looks to me like the pcre3 dependency in the terminus package is
entirely due to its use of valac and other build support. There
doesn't appear to be any direct use, except in a build dependency.
If I remove that build dependency, libpcre3-dev is still pulled into
the build environment, due to its being a transitive requirement.
So as a matter of policy, can I just remove the build dependency and
close this bug and relax, even though the actual executable still ends
up linked against libpcre3? Seeing as how that needs to be fixed in
some other package...
Yes, I think that's correct. Hopefully the package that actually
build-depends on libpcre3-dev will get fixed :)
Regards,
Matthew
