From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from www.dynamicdevices.co.uk (www.dynamicdevices.co.uk [89.200.136.37]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 123D260DD7 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 19:23:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.dynamicdevices.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34AFE27E060; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 19:23:03 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at lennoab2.miniserver.com Received: from www.dynamicdevices.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (www.dynamicdevices.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id vp-vnim5dIWj; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 19:23:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (cpc32-live22-2-0-cust59.17-2.cable.virginm.net [82.36.253.60]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by www.dynamicdevices.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4F00027E04C; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 19:23:02 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <53DE8C14.1030602@dynamicdevices.co.uk> Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 20:23:00 +0100 From: Alex J Lennon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Purdie References: <53DE3841.2000305@topic.nl> <53DE3E5C.5020303@dynamicdevices.co.uk> <1407082617.6981.44.camel@ted> In-Reply-To: <1407082617.6981.44.camel@ted> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Cc: mike.looijmans@topic.nl, OE Subject: Re: What does "QA Issue: ... rdepends on .. but its not a build dependency?" mean X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 19:23:07 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 03/08/2014 17:16, Richard Purdie wrote: > 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. > I stand corrected :) Cheers, Alex