Punt debathena-build-depends

[jdreed]

Per discussion on the mailing list, we should drop debathena-build-depends, because the code to generate it is ugly, and modern build tools automatically resolve build-dependencies, including disjunctions. Building Debathena packages without a modern build tool is not a supported operation.

[jdreed]

 https://github.com/mit-athena/debathena-workstation/pull/1

[andersk]

Although we don’t need debathena-build-depends for the purpose of building Debathena packages, it’s still a way that we pull in packages. Has somebody checked which set of packages would no longer be pulled in, and whether we want to pull them in some other way?

[jdreed]

I believe this to be the set of packages that we don't otherwise pull in:

• Tools: automake1.10, automake1.9, autotools-dev, bison, config-package-dev, debathena-aclocal, dh-buildinfo, grep-dctrl, python-all-dev*, python-pyrex, python-setuptools*, python-support*, schroot*
• Libraries: comerr-dev, libdb-dev, libgtk2.0-dev, libhesiod-dev, libkrb5-dev, libncurses-dev, libopenafs-dev, libpam0g-dev, libreadline-dev, libssl-dev, libxt-dev, libzephyr-dev, ss-dev,
• Packages which are/will be obsolete: debathena-libathdir-dev, debathena-libxj-dev, debathena-libgms-dev, debathena-liblocker-dev, debathena-maybe-ubufox

There are some oddballs:

• we have python-all-dev via -thirdparty, but not via -workstation
• we have python-setuptools via -extra-software-nox (wat?)
• we have schroot via -reactivate (not on -workstation, obviously)
• we have python-support via all the python packages ever.

So I propose the following:

• debathena-debian-dev adds dependencies on: gnulib (which gets us autotools-dev, current automake (1.11

), and bison), config-package-dev, dh-buildinfo (as long as we have CDBS packages around), grep-dctrl, python-all-dev, python-pyrex, python-setuptools, python-support, and debathena-aclocal

• We drop automake 1.10 and 1.9 because that's dumb.
• I could do either way on schroot -- it's vaguely useful, but is kind of a large hammer if you're not going to use chroots.
• We drop the various library -dev packages. The only one that has widespread appeal is libreadline-dev. I could be convinced to throw these into ... something (-thirdparty)?

alexp: Do you need any of the -dev packages listed above when building things? Should we put them in -thirdparty?

[vasilvv]

committed  43c8b81e8ebb550c473526978099fb131ede438e (Remove debathena-build-depends) to master. (patch originally from jdreed@…)

[vasilvv]

committed  795c02bdfb37975ce3633b7b695ac871acd76103 (Remove debathena-build-depends) to master

[jdreed]

 https://github.com/mit-athena/debathena-debian-dev/pull/2
is the second half of this.

[jdreed]

committed  d4e65994c582e9bd250c03ffea4d651b50c4601a (Import dependencies from debathena-build-depends) to master