Bug 815841

Summary:	[RFE] track unused build dependencies
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Fedora Packaging Toolset Team <packaging-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	ffesti, packaging-team, pmatilai, rvokal, vladimir.rusinov
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Description Bill Nottingham 2012-04-24 16:00:36 UTC

Description of problem:

As time goes by, there is occasional build dependency bitrot. It would be neat if RPM during the build tracked what was accessed, and warns if a build dependency was never accessed at all during the build.

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rpm-current

Comment 2 Florian Festi 2016-03-11 13:04:50 UTC

Keeping track of what the build actually does is far out of the scope of rpm. The way to solve this is to build the package without the build deps and check if there is no error.