[bt-devel] gnome-doc-utils requirement silently added?

[Eeli Kaikkonen]

Jonathan Marsden wrote:
 > In svn r1268 the svn log says:
 >
 >  - Remove reference to KDE, noticed by Greg Hellings
 >
 > However, this revision also silently added gnome-doc-utils as a
 > developer requirement to the README.

Who can explain this? I'm not familiar with it.

If you ask me, I don't like having any dependencies which are not really 
needed, especially if it has "gnome" on its name. If it's only for the 
manual/howto it should be mentioned explicitly. Most developers don't 
handle the application docs anyways. If the needed program is really 
some subset of the mentioned package, for example some command line 
tool, it should be mentioned explicitly, because it may be packaged 
differently in different distros.

> (1) Is gnome-doc-utils required to build BibleTime from source now?

No. I don't have it installed, yet BT builds fine.

> Packagers (and developers in general) need to be made aware of such
> things -- I may need to add gnome-doc-utils to the Build-Depends: line
> of the BibleTime debian/control file :)
> 
> In general, I think it would be good to highlight any change to the
> software needed to build BibleTime in an email on bt-devel, and in the
> svn log.  If that happened, and I somehow missed it, my apologies!

I agree.


--Eeli Kaikkonen