Re: "A" build-depends on "B"'s source: what to do
On Fri, 28 May 2004, Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
> A user who was trying to build pathan posted a bug against the
> libxerces23-dev package (bug 215079) asking that libxerces23-dev
> supply some private header files so that pathan could be built.
Hey that person wouldn't be trying to package Berkeley DB XML would they?
If so and they need a sponsor have them get in touch with me.
I
> feel that this is an incorrect solution
Definitely.
> Still, it would be good to be able to accommodate the user in some
> other way.
IMO Pathans' source package should just add any xerces headers it needs to
compile.
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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
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