Re: What does "QA Issue: ... rdepends on .. but its not a build dependency?" mean

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

On Sun, 2014-08-03 at 14:51 +0100, Alex J Lennon wrote:
> On 03/08/2014 14:25, Mike Looijmans wrote:
> > I'm getting lots of warnings like this:
> >
> > """
> > WARNING: QA Issue: enigma2-plugin-systemplugins-wirelesslan rdepends
> > on wireless-tools but its not a build dependency? [build-deps]
> > """
> >
> > What does it actually mean? What does it want me to provide here?
> >
> > The message in itself is correct. The package only has a runtime
> > dependency. It does not require the wireless-tools package to be built
> > or otherwise present on the build system. But what is the QA issue
> > here and how do I get rid of the message?
> >
> 
> Surely if package B has a non-optional runtime dependency on package A
> then package A must be built and present on the target ?

Its the "built" part that is the issue, bitbake can't see the
dependency, hence the warning.

> > Apart from that, there's a spelling error in there (its -> it's)
> > because it's "it's" when it's "it is" and it's "its" when it's its
> > property.
> >
> 
> It is a spelling error in a superficial sense perhaps, but at a deeper
> level I suspect it is more accurately characterised as a grammatical error.
> 
> Perhaps somebody was having trouble with string terminations and decided
> to avoid trouble?

Somebody was concentrating on the correctness of the code generating the
warning rather than the grammar. The latter is easily fixed, patches
welcome.

Cheers,

Richard