Make dependency type default to build

Background

.bst files are verbose for the common case of dependencies.

I am seeing .bst files that look like

depends:
- filename: a.bst
  type: build
- filename: b.bst
  type: build
...
- filename: z.bst
  type: build

Task description

Make the dependency type default to build, to reduce verbosity

Changing the default value would break backward compatibility. We could consider introducing build-depends, though.

@juergbi Either that or a project.conf option to configure the default type, if not specified. I like your option better though.

assigned to @jonathanmaw

Assigned to self while I consider how to implement this.

I also like @juergbi's suggestion to use build-depends, if we add that; we should also have runtime-depends I think, for API symmetry, and also because it's less wordy to express.

created branch 463-make-dependency-type-default-to-build

created branch 463-make-dependency-type-default-to-build-2

mentioned in merge request !633 (merged)

closed via merge request !633 (merged)

mentioned in commit 9d074d7f