Re: [PATCH] eglibc-locale: fix localedef packaging

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 12:17 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 14:49 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 14:36 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 22:32 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> > > > From http://git.angstrom-distribution.org/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/testlab/commit/?h=yocto&id=0d0e14cda2ddd881d09798b0e6edd8086aa9b6d9
> > > > 
> > > > +libc6 -> libc6_dev;
> > > > 
> > > > So libc6 now depends on libc6-dev :(
> > > 
> > > I guess it would be straightforward to patch insane.bbclass to detect
> > > that particular failure (which does indeed seem to happen to libc
> > > distressingly often).  It already diagnoses the case where a package
> > > erroneously depends on a -dbg package, and I can't think of any reason
> > > why the same logic couldn't be applied to -dev.
> > 
> > I'd love to see a patch for this! :)
> 
> Your wish, naturally, is my command.  I've built micro-base-image with
> this and verified that I didn't get any false positives; I also checked
> (via some manual fiddling) that it did indeed detect the case that we
> want it to.  
> 
> I guess it might be a good idea for someone to test it with a slightly
> larger dataset before actually checking it in, just in case.

I merged an updated version of this into master as I think its a useful
check, thanks.

Richard