Bug#274747: type-handling: 274747: dpkg-dev dependency removal

2011-11-18 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 02:47:33 +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org, 2011-11-17, 12:18: Ah, thanks for the list Jakub! Is that exhaustive, against all possible Provides generated by type-handling or only a selected few? I believe it's exhaustive, but I'll

Bug#274747: type-handling: 274747: dpkg-dev dependency removal

2011-11-17 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org, 2011-11-17, 03:11: There are also some users of virtual packages provided by type-handling: Source: coreutils Build-Depends: ..., libattr1-dev | not+linux-gnu, libacl1-dev | not+linux-gnu, libselinux1-dev (= 1.32) | not+linux-gnu, ... Source: mc

Bug#274747: type-handling: 274747: dpkg-dev dependency removal

2011-11-17 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org, 2011-11-17, 12:18: There are also some users of virtual packages provided by type-handling: Source: coreutils Build-Depends: ..., libattr1-dev | not+linux-gnu, libacl1-dev | not+linux-gnu, libselinux1-dev (= 1.32) | not+linux-gnu, ... Source: mc Build-Depends:

Bug#274747: type-handling: 274747: dpkg-dev dependency removal

2011-11-16 Thread Paul Wise
Hi all, I just added Depends: linux to iotop (arch all, written in python and depends on a Linux kernel) before I realised that type-handling pulls in dpkg-dev. I would really appreciate it if the type-handling Provides were split off into a second package, or maybe dpkg is the right place for

Bug#274747: type-handling: 274747: dpkg-dev dependency removal

2011-11-16 Thread Robert Millan
Hi Paul, 2011/11/16 Paul Wise p...@debian.org: I just added Depends: linux to iotop (arch all, written in python and depends on a Linux kernel) before I realised that type-handling pulls in dpkg-dev. I would really appreciate it if the type-handling Provides were split off into a second

Bug#274747: type-handling: 274747: dpkg-dev dependency removal

2011-11-16 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Robert Millan r...@debian.org, 2011-11-16, 18:18: I just added Depends: linux to iotop (arch all, written in python and depends on a Linux kernel) before I realised that type-handling pulls in dpkg-dev. I would really appreciate it if the type-handling Provides were split off into a second

Bug#274747: type-handling: 274747: dpkg-dev dependency removal

2011-11-16 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 00:58:30 +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Robert Millan r...@debian.org, 2011-11-16, 18:18: I just added Depends: linux to iotop (arch all, written in python and depends on a Linux kernel) before I realised that type-handling pulls in dpkg-dev. I would really appreciate it

Bug#274747: type-handling: 274747: dpkg-dev dependency removal

2011-11-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 03:11 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: dpkg is not the right place for the Provides, those are a hack, are overstepping on the package name space, and they should really go. ... * The second case comes from conflating the two roles of arch:all packages, saving archive