Re: Proposed Autoconf 2.50 path
* Ben Pfaff
| Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> writes:
|
| > On Fri, 25 May 2001, Ben Pfaff wrote:
| > > If a package doesn't declare a build-depends on autoconf then it
| > > isn't allowed to use it at build time, since autoconf is not
| >
| > If it doesn't declare any build-depends at all, it might use autoconf, so
| > one must manually check :(
|
| I think that's also a bug, and hence not really my problem either:
|
| 2.4.2. Package relationships
| ----------------------------
|
| Source packages should specify which binary packages they
^^^^^^
should, not must. And we have packages which is compliant with old
policy - Build-Dependencies are quite new. So not specifying
build-deps is not an RC bug.
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