[csw-maintainers] [csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs pm_calendarsimp, pm_calendarsimple

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi,

Am 02.11.2010 um 16:49 schrieb Philip Brown:
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Dagobert Michelsen  
> <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> Why is this dependency a problem now? All of my stubs
>> I referenced in my last email had both dependencies to
>> CSWcommon and CSWperl and as the dependend package has
>> also both dependencies there I can't imagine why that
>> should be a problem.
>
> Because the package itself does not actually depend on CSWperl.
> That at least should be a clear "wrong" to you. We are sometimes
> interested in "how many packages need perl", and stubs like this throw
> off the count.
>
> Additionally, this has been a standard since day one of CSW: If
> package A depends on package B which depends on package C: it is an
> ERROR to say that A -> C, unless it directly uses things in C.
>
> Perhaps not so clear, is that depending on CSWcommon is also wrong.
> The stub(s) uses nothing of the contents of CSWcommon.
>
> Dago, I did not closely examine your stub packages prior to this,
> because I presumed as a long-time maintainer such as yourself, would
> "do the right thing" without me checking. :)

This first requires that I know what is the right thing :)

> But since Jonathan is relatively new, i took a closer look at his  
> stub package

Removing the dependency to CSWperl is not that hard - a possibility
to override dependencies should just do it. OTOH I could also
add something that if the package has been registered as stub
it will have no implicit dependencies. I'll have a look on how
to best implement it.


Best regards

   -- Dago