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[Jamie Strandboge <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/21/2013 05:58 AM, Olivier Tilloy wrote:
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> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Omer Akram <omer.akram@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:omer.akram@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello!
> 
>     webbrowser-app-autopilot depends on ubuntu-ui-toolkit-autopilot which
>     provides reusable emulators(helpers) to easily interact with different
>     components of the ubuntu-ui-toolkit while writing autopilot tests. The
>     dependencies come from there. Many other apps depend
>     on ubuntu-ui-toolkit-autopilot as well.
> 
> 
> That’s correct. And I should add that most applications’ autopilot tests should
> use the standard emulators provided by the SDK, and thus their -autopilot
> package should depend on ubuntu-ui-toolkit-autopilot.
>  
> 
>     Some packaging expert will need to look at ubuntu-ui-toolkit-autopilot and
>     see if we can do some packaging changes there to reduce the deps.
> 
> 
> Note that ubuntu-ui-toolkit-autopilot depends on dpkg-dev, which pulls in a lot
> of build dependencies, such as make and perl. This is because the emulators rely
> on dpkg-architecture to locate qmlscene.
> Maybe there’s a simpler way to achieve this, and we could get rid of the
> dependency on dpkg-dev?
> 

If dpkg-architecture is the only thing pulling in dpkg-dev, just use this instead:
dpkg --print-architecture

(I just learned about this myself).

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Jamie Strandboge                 http://www.ubuntu.com/

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