[OE-core] What does "QA Issue: ... rdepends on .. but its not a build dependency?" mean

[Alex J Lennon]

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