Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-devel/autoconf wrong dependency?

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>]

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On 1/31/24 04:56, Andreas Fink wrote:
> With the move of sys-devel/autoconf to dev-build/autoconf the ebuild
> has some inconsistency, namely in the RDEPEND section, it is saying:
> 
> RDEPEND="
>          ${BDEPEND}
>          >=dev-build/autoconf-wrapper-20231224
>          sys-devel/gnuconfig
>          !~sys-devel/${P}:2.5
> "
> 
> This should probably be `!~dev-build/${P}:2.5`. It shows up in the
> following as a problem:
> emerge -auvDN --changed-deps=y --with-bdeps=y @world # --> merges autoconf-2.72-r1
> 
> Now:
> emaint --fix all # --> fixes dependency from sys-devel/autoconf to dev-build/autoconf
> 
> and again a full system update:
> emerge -auvDN --changed-deps=y --with-bdeps=y @world # --> merges autoconf-2.72-r1
> 
> This would want to again install autoconf, due to the changed-deps flag.
> 
> I am quite sure that this is not the intended behaviour, or is it?
> 
> Best
> Andreas
> 

Yeah, that's not intended. Reported as https://bugs.gentoo.org/923424.
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Thanks,
Zac


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