[oe] [RFC] gnome.bbclass change broke lots of package dependencies

[Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov]

Phil Blundell wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 12:07 +0300, Ihar Hrachyshka wrote:
>> @@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ inherit autotools gtk-icon-cache pkgconfig gconf mime
>> 
>>  AUTOTOOLS_STAGE_PKGCONFIG = "1"
>> 
>> +PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-scrollkeeper-leftovers"
>> +FILES_${PN}-scrollkeeper-leftovers =
>> "${localstatedir}/lib/scrollkeeper" +
>>  gnome_stage_includes() {
>>         autotools_stage_includes
>>  }
>> 
>> As we can see, there is now ${PN}-scrollkeeper-leftovers package for
>> every recipe that inherited gnome.bbclass. And this -leftovers package
>> is in the current dependency chains (at least for qt4-embedded-dev
>> package).
> 
> Where is your dependency on -scrollkeeper-leftovers coming from? Nothing
> in the patch that you quoted looks like it ought to be causing that.
> 
> That said, the patch does look a bit bizarre: as a general rule we don't
> package things from ${localstatedir} since lots of targets have that as
> a ramdisk.  It isn't obvious to me what this is going to achieve.

I can confirm the dependency part of this report. It's causing build
failures for me: see bug 5123. I've traced this to strange dependancies on
pango-scrollkeeper-leftovers from most of pango packages.



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With best wishes
Dmitry