[RFH] Ugly dependency on a locale package

[RFH] Ugly dependency on a locale package

[Otavio Salvador]

Hello,

Today we spot a wierd package in our image and then we ended figuring
out that something quite strange is happening.

 new debian package, version 2.0.
 size 9880 bytes: control archive= 471 bytes.
     497 bytes,    13 lines      control              
 Package: evince-locale-pt-br
 Version: 2.24.1-r2.1
 Description: pt_BR translation for evince
 Section: x11/office
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Angstrom Developers <angstrom-distro-devel@linuxtogo.org>
 License: GPL
 Architecture: geode
 OE: evince
 Homepage: http://www.ossystems.com.br
 Depends: evince-nautilus-extension, virtual-locale-pt-br
 Provides: evince-locale, pt-br-translation
 Source: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/evince/2.24/evince-2.24.1.tar.bz2 file://no-help-dir.patch;patch=1


Look the line:

  Depends: evince-nautilus-extension, virtual-locale-pt-br
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

WHY?


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Otavio Salvador                  O.S. Systems
E-mail: otavio@ossystems.com.br  http://www.ossystems.com.br
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Re: [RFH] Ugly dependency on a locale package

[Koen Kooi]

On 01-04-09 23:12, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Today we spot a wierd package in our image and then we ended figuring
> out that something quite strange is happening.

Does it use do_split_package without specifying base_depends?

regards,

Koen

>
>   new debian package, version 2.0.
>   size 9880 bytes: control archive= 471 bytes.
>       497 bytes,    13 lines      control
>   Package: evince-locale-pt-br
>   Version: 2.24.1-r2.1
>   Description: pt_BR translation for evince
>   Section: x11/office
>   Priority: optional
>   Maintainer: Angstrom Developers<angstrom-distro-devel@linuxtogo.org>
>   License: GPL
>   Architecture: geode
>   OE: evince
>   Homepage: http://www.ossystems.com.br
>   Depends: evince-nautilus-extension, virtual-locale-pt-br
>   Provides: evince-locale, pt-br-translation
>   Source: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/evince/2.24/evince-2.24.1.tar.bz2 file://no-help-dir.patch;patch=1
>
>
> Look the line:
>
>    Depends: evince-nautilus-extension, virtual-locale-pt-br
>             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> WHY?
>
>

Re: [RFH] Ugly dependency on a locale package

[Otavio Salvador]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl> wrote:
> On 01-04-09 23:12, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Today we spot a wierd package in our image and then we ended figuring
>> out that something quite strange is happening.
>
> Does it use do_split_package without specifying base_depends?

This is the evence 2.24 recipe, on OE git. It doesn't use it since it
uses the default locale spliting method I think.

I really see no reason why it happens but I've reverted your
patch[1] in our tree to keep our work going but I'd do prefer to
not divert if we can find the reason why it happens.

1. ebbcf0ebad3e98fd563cb66cb13b07c21d6d7a24

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Otavio Salvador                  O.S. Systems
E-mail: otavio@ossystems.com.br  http://www.ossystems.com.br
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