Bug 13893

Summary: bitbake considers any package name starting with "texinfo-native" as satisfiable DEPENDS
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] BitBake Reporter: Yann Dirson <ydirson>
Component: bitbakeAssignee: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Medium+ CC: poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher, randy.macleod
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: 3.2 M2   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Yann Dirson 2020-05-05 06:15:54 UTC 
bitbake does not fail in warrior on a recipe with in its DEPENDS anything like:

DEPENDS += "texinfo-nativejunk-that-does-not-exist"

or, like it happened to me, a missing space in an _append, where the DEPENDS string up to then finished with "texinfo-native":

DEPENDS_append = "anypackage"
Comment 1 Richard Purdie 2020-06-23 14:40:54 UTC 
It seems we support regexs in ASSUME_PROVIDED (from https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/commit/lib/bb/taskdata.py?id=efb0474231ed286073a5a5904094320da8cab28d). I've sent an email out asking if anyone uses this as it would be easiest to drop it which would be one way to fix this issue.