The following question came up: Should Koji include weak dependencies when creating the buildroot? dgilmore asked me to bring this to FPC, and I mentioned it at a meeting back in late January, but then forgot about it completely.
I can't see any reasonable course of action besides not following weak deps. Our guidelines state that you should expect to have build dependencies on everything you need beyond whatever RPM needs to function.
A patch to throw the switch in koji to make sure that weak deps aren't followed is at https://pagure.io/koji/pull-request/43
FPC's input would be appreciated there.
We discussed this at this weeks meeting (http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2016-03-24/fpc.2016-03-24-16.01.txt):
Metadata Update from @james: - Issue assigned to tibbs
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