Re: Intent to package pine-src

[James Troup <J.J.Troup@scm.brad.ac.uk>]

[ Still not wanting to get into the discussion, honest, just making
  random points ]

Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com> writes:

> > What is your point? The .deb packaging of source doesn't deal with
> > source dependencies any better than the current source package.
> 
> Sure it does.  You put the dependencies on the Depends: line of the
> control file.

You can do that in the .dsc file too, but it suffers from the same
problem, i.e. what to do with source dependencies like svgalibg1-dev,
which are arch-specific when .dsc files (or source debs, whatever) are
arch-independent.

-- 
James


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