Re: Removal of krb5-devel from "stable" F29 buidroot broke my package

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Dne 16. 05. 19 v 9:20 Dominique Martinet napsal(a):
> Vít Ondruch wrote on Thu, May 16, 2019 at 08:28:45AM +0200:
>>>> This was removed on my request, triggered by this PR [1]. Nevertheless I
>>>> concur that this should happen just in Rawhide and never be backported
>>>> into stable releases.
>>> I don't see why this is a problem.  Removing an unneeded build
>>> dependency from a package shouldn't affect anything else.  That it did
>>> merely pointed out a bug in the other package where the build deps
>>> were incomplete.
> The problem is not the build dependency, you can get rid of it
> everywhere without any impact except for openssl itself.
>
> What is less transparent is the removal of an actual Require (two
> actually, zlib-devel is no longer pulled either) ; that can impact other
> packages and workflows.


Ah, right, I meant Require of course. I stand corrected. Thx.


Vít


> Someone installing openssl-devel could have expected it to pull
> krb5-devel and zlib-devel, now they need to install it explicitely
> separately for their own use as well, it's a change in user interface.
>
>> We lived with this "bug" for years. There is no reason to fix this bug
>> in stable release just to cause other bugs. And it was obvious it would
>> broke at least build of Ruby and now it is obvious it did broke not just
>> Ruby. It would be enough to have to solve this issues in Rawhide.
>>
>> Also, (not) pulling -devel package into build root might result in some
>> subtle bugs such as some part of package functionality disabled based on
>> build configuration, which might went unnoticed, until the package is
>> released. This is irresponsible.
> configure with feature autodetection is a PITA :/
>
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