[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/swugenerator: add missing dependencies

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello Giulio,

On Tue, 26 Dec 2023 22:28:01 +0100
Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti at benettiengineering.com> wrote:

> > Could you clarify whether these are runtime dependencies? If there are
> > build time dependencies, do we see build failures in the autobuilders?  
> 
> I haven't thought about it. They are runtime dependencies, so we can't
> see failure in the autobuilders.

OK. Then ideally they should be identified as such so we don't forget
in the future :)

> >> +HOST_SWUGENERATOR_DEPENDENCIES = host-gzip host-openssl host-python-libconf  
> > 
> > In your commit log, you mention host-zstd being needed, but you don't
> > add it to the dependencies here. Could you clarify this as well?  
> 
> Ah right, I simply need to add host-zstd because swugenerator can use
> gzip or zstd at runtime.

So how to we handle this? We put only one of the two (which one?) or
both?

Best regards,

Thomas
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