On Saturday 15 of May 2021 18:05:04 deloptes wrote: > Michele Calgaro via tde-devels wrote: > > Hi all, > > In hindsight, it would have been more appropriate if we had sent an > > email to the devel ML informing everyone of the change from make to > > ninja build as default for DEB-like distros. It didn't come to our > > mind, apologies for that :-) As Slavek mentioned, you can still build > > using make if you wish, just get rid of the ninja-build dependency in > > the debian/control file. > > I have seen the merge of the PR, but as said before I was curious about > the why. IMO you are the bosses and proven to take good decisions. > I do not think it is necessary to inform in advance or to apologies for > that. > I was just surprised by the hard dependency. I am not sure if it can be > done via recommendation. If it can work as before without ninja-build, > why the hard dependency? But it is still OK for me - important is that > the code works at the end. > > > ____________________________________________________ Because here is an intention to use ninja-build as the default for building deb packages, it was necessary to add ninja-build in "control" files to Build-Depends to ensure the installation of ninja-build package. It is simply not possible to make an dependency optional for such a case, bacause the package building conditions must be unambiguous. Cheers -- Slávek
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