On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 12:32:06AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > >From current policy: > > When specifying the set of build-time dependencies, one should list > only those packages explicitly required by the build. It is not > necessary to list packages which are required merely because some > other package in the list of build-time dependencies depends on them. > The reason is that dependencies change, and you should list only those > _you_ need. What others need is their business. When I asked a similar question some time ago, I did not find anything like this in the policy. I tried section 7.6 (Relationships between source and binary packages). Is the statement above new, or did I look in the wrong place? Jochen -- Omm (0)-(0) http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wwwstoch/voss/privat.html
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