serious bugs because of missing build depends
Hi,
some of you have filed serious bugs against packages that have no
Build-Depends at all.
According to Policy Section 2.4.2. Package relationships
Build-Depends only SHOULD be defined, Section 7 says the MAY
be defined.
So lack of a Build-Depends line is NOT a serious bug.
For packages with Standards-Version below 3.1 such bugs should be wishlist
(wish to upgrade to a new Standards-Version and include Build-Depends)
because those policy versions did not define Build-Depends at all.
Wrong Build-Depends (if specified) are serious tho.
This seems to be the consensus on #debian-bugs.
yours,
peter
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