Filippo Rusconi wrote:
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 02:11:18PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 13:46:30 +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:No, policy is very clear on that: if you call the "build" target, you _must_ satisfy Build-Depends-Indep and Build-Conflicts-Indep:And policy is clearly not followed by any actual practice on this point. So that's as much a bug in policy as anything else (#374029). Cheers, JulienWell, but then, why have new packagers trained by studying the Policy?
Because they should find errors in policy and report such bugs ;-) Really many bug of debian-policy are found by new maintainers, but unfortunately most of new maintainers are too shy to report bugs to debian-policy, just because they are *new* maintainers. Thus debian-policy still have many bugs. ciao cate