AutoQA test for missed BR's
by alekcejk@googlemail.com
Chris Tyler wrote:
> I really want to stress that it *may need* attention. During the armv7hl
> bring-up, we've realized that there are some *ridiculous* dep chains in
> our package collection. Adding in optional build dependencies will cause
> the corresponding runtime dependencies (libraries, utilies, etc) to get
> pulled in, and there will be many cases where a package maintainer will
> legitimately decide not to add an optional BR in order to keep the dep
> chains sane. I'd hate for automated test results to convince (especially
> new) packagers that they should add in optional BRs without carefully
> working through the consequences... the wording of the warning message
> will be important here.
There are many reasons why not to add optional dependencies
in BuildRequires so final decision should made maintainer.
Such warnings should be informational only to help maintainer
not to lose needed functionality because of unintentionally
missed BuildRequires.
Alexey Kurov <nucleo(a)fedoraproject.org>