Bug 1063086

Summary:	libktorrent-devel requires boost-devel
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed	Reporter:	Christoph Feck <cfeck>
Component:	KDE Applications	Assignee:	E-Mail List <opensuse-kde-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	wbauer
Version:	Current
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Bug Blocks:	1062583

Description Christoph Feck 2017-10-12 21:47:14 UTC

Instead it should only require those headers it actually needs, see bug 1062583.

Comment 1 Wolfgang Bauer 2017-10-13 09:24:46 UTC

It does only require libboost_headers-devel on Tumbleweed:
%if 0%{?suse_version} > 1325
Requires:       libboost_headers-devel
%else
Requires:       boost-devel
%endif

This has been changed 8 months ago already...
https://build.opensuse.org/package/rdiff/openSUSE:Factory/libktorrent?linkrev=base&rev=37

Comment 2 Wolfgang Bauer 2017-10-13 09:31:01 UTC

Could it be that you mean to package in KDE:Unstable:Extra though?
That doesn't have this change, I'll add it...

Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2017-10-13 18:24:22 UTC

Sorry, yes, this is about KUE. I was under the impression that every KDE package is bred in KU* first.

Regarding replacing 'boost-devel' with 'libboost_headers-devel', I think the aim was to reduce dependencies, and have packages only depend on the libboost_<libname>*-devel headers it actually needs, but this is best discussed with boost package maintainers.

Comment 4 Wolfgang Bauer 2017-10-20 10:07:35 UTC

(In reply to Christoph Feck from comment #3)
> Sorry, yes, this is about KUE. I was under the impression that every KDE
> package is bred in KU* first.

That's true for KDE:Applications, but not KDE:Extra really...

This change is in KUE meanwhile as well though.

> Regarding replacing 'boost-devel' with 'libboost_headers-devel', I think the
> aim was to reduce dependencies, and have packages only depend on the
> libboost_<libname>*-devel headers it actually needs, but this is best
> discussed with boost package maintainers.

This change has actually been submitted by Adam Majer, the reporter of bug 1062583.

AIUI, bug 1062583 is (only) about dropping boost-devel though, it is still fine to depend on/use libboost_headers-devel (which only contains static include files and has no dependencies on any boost library anyway btw, unlike boost-devel which pulls in all of them).