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Bug 571244

Summary: sys-apps/groff-1.22.2 should not depend on >=sys-apps/texinfo-4.7-r1
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Matthew Millar <mattmill30>
Component: [OLD] Core systemAssignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16186
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Attachments: groff-1.22.2-r1.ebuild: >=sys-apps/texinfo-4.7-r1 dependency removed

Description Matthew Millar 2016-01-08 02:57:36 UTC
Created attachment 422268 [details]
groff-1.22.2-r1.ebuild: >=sys-apps/texinfo-4.7-r1 dependency removed

groff-1.22.2.tar.bz2:/groff-1.22.2/doc/Makefile.in states that "info files are distributed with the groff package, so makeinfo is usually not needed".

makeinfo tool is included in texinfo, which is therefore not a dependency.
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2016-01-12 18:05:56 UTC
looks like an old bug fix that got out of hand

http://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=03c319c399279ce9446557fad62a359592d6a1f0