Bug#4729: dpkg creates package with missing Depends:
Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca wrote:
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>Package: dpkg-dev
>Version: 1.4.0
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>dpkg let me build packages without a Depends: file in debian/control. [1]
>Maybe some minimal sanity checks could be added to dpkg-genchanges?
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>[1] It could be argued that I should file this as bug against myself :-)
Taking one of my own packages, libelf, as an example: it is not linked
against libc, so it doesn't need to depend on it (at least, I hope not -
otherwise, I've got another release to do :-); in fact, it doesn't really
need anything, except a working Linux system.
Similarly, libc doesn't depend upon anything - except, perhaps, a working
Linux kernel... there _ARE_ packages that don't really need to depend on
anything. They are few and far between (generally, they'd be libraries, or
would be designed to live by themselves - sash, a "safe shell", is a case
in point there) - but they _do_ exist.
It may be appropriate to have a warning - "this package does not depend on
anything" - but to _prevent_ this would be broken behaviour (IMO).
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