15 May
2021
15 May
'21
11:27 p.m.
On Saturday 15 of May 2021 18:05:04 deloptes wrote:
Michele Calgaro via tde-devels wrote:
Because here is an intention to use ninja-build as the default for building
deb packages, it was necessary to add ninja-build in "control" files to
Build-Depends to ensure the installation of ninja-build package. It is
simply not possible to make an dependency optional for such a case,
bacause the package building conditions must be unambiguous.
Cheers
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Slávek
Hi all,
In hindsight, it would have been more appropriate if we had sent an
email to the devel ML informing everyone of the change from make to
ninja build as default for DEB-like distros. It didn't come to our
mind, apologies for that :-) As Slavek mentioned, you can still build
using make if you wish, just get rid of the ninja-build dependency in
the debian/control file.
I have seen the merge of the PR, but as said before I was curious about
the why. IMO you are the bosses and proven to take good decisions.
I do not think it is necessary to inform in advance or to apologies for
that.
I was just surprised by the hard dependency. I am not sure if it can be
done via recommendation. If it can work as before without ninja-build,
why the hard dependency? But it is still OK for me - important is that
the code works at the end.
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