On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 07:19:21PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 09:43:35AM +0200, Cristian Henzel a écrit : > > > > Well, I just noticed that autotools-dev is actually an indirect > > dependency of intltool (intltool depends on automake which depends on > > autotools-dev) so I guess if I remove autotools-dev from the dependency > > list it won't cause any harm. > > Dear Cristian, > > it is a latent bug that will make your package fail to build if intltool stops > depending on automake or if automake stops depending on autotools-dev. Your > package should build-depend on what it needs, regardless if some of these > dependancies are also satisfied on a second or higher order by other packages. Not to mention that a direct dependency on autotools-dev >= 20100122.1~ is quite useful when using dh --with autotools_dev :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@space.bg roam@ringlet.net roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 The rest of this sentence is written in Thailand, on
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