serious bugs because of missing build depends

[Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>]

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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