[arch-dev-public] libcap rebuilds

[Eric Bélanger]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Eric Bélanger wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hugo Doria schrieb:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> * Rebuild syslog-ng (add libcap in makedepends). I do not know if i
>>>> have permission to rebuild anything from [core]. Aaron?
>>>>
>>>
>>> You can rebuild them and change the subversion. You should also be able
>>> to
>>> put them in testing - but you seem to have no write permission to the
>>> core
>>> repository.
>>> Just put them in testing with the rest and someone else can move them to
>>> core when the time comes.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I guess that means that we'll have to move libcap in [core].
>>
>
> We have been leaving makedeps in [extra]...  Not sure if it is a formal
> policy decision.
>
> Allan
>

I think it depends if these makedepends have any (make)depends in
extra. Instead of moving them to core along with their whole
dependency chain, we just keep them in extra  because it makes more
sense (eg. python-m2crypto). Libcap only depends on glibc so it
doesn't have this problem.