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Re: Are build-dependancies mandatory?



On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 06:13:37AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> > The policy says:
> >
> >       A source package may declare a dependency or a conflict
                           ^^^
> >       on a binary package.
[...]
> Some 3.x policy version added build dependencies.  If your package follows
> said policy, then it must have correct build dependencies.
                       ^^^^

I still don't understand why the policy (version 3.5.3.0)
doesn't simply say "must" rather then "may".

Marcin
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