Re: Lintian and Build-Depends (was Re: A question about update-excuses)
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 02:39:15PM +0200, Jochen Voss wrote:
> I looked into source-dependencies-unstable.gz and have a question.
> For my gnome-utils package it states
>
> gnome-utils: ACMGL, flex, ...
>
> and later on
>
> abbrev ACMGL = autoconf, automake, m4, gettext, libtool
>
> Does this mean, that gnome-utils should have a build dependency on
> automake? I don't think that this should be the case, because
> I do not run automake from the rules file. Even if I would change
> a Makefile.am, the corresponing changes to Makefile.in would be
> included in the diff file. So still no need for automake in the
> Build-Depends. The same argument seems to hold for autoconf, gettext
> and libtool.
Not necessarily. Configure scripts have a habit of always regenerating
things like Makefile.in, to the great dismay of build dependencies.
If you take explicit steps to prevent that, then you can probably
ignore the dependency.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer
Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team
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