Op ma, 27-06-2005 te 10:56 +0100, schreef Neil McGovern: > Hi there, you appear to be depending on build-essential without using a > versioned depends. > > In general a package should not depend on build essential packages but > if it must do so, the depends should have a version string. Hi Neil, I'm CC this to debian-devel because I want to know what other people think about build-depending on build-essential. I hope you don't mind. I agree it isn't necessary, which is stated in policy section 4.2 but section 4 and section 7 do not contain any statement saying that every build dependency on build-essential should be versioned. As it is nowhere forbidden in the policy and I use CDBS to generate debian/control from debian/control.in (not a build-time though) and CDBS adds the reference to build-essential in the Build-Depends, I am inclined to leave build-essential in the Build-Depends list. If it really should not be done, maybe a check could be added to lintian and/or linda and CDBS and the policy should be updated. Also some of the other packages which use CDBS (gnome-panel for instance) have a unversioned build dependency on build-essential. Greetings Arjan Oosting
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