Re: Source-depends?

[Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <gaia@iki.fi>]

On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 05:05:10PM -0400, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> Some of these can be detected automatically (#5 could be discovered with a
> grep on debian/rules, for example), but some can't.

So, what's the problem?  We don't autodetect all of binary dependencies
either.  Maintainers generally know what they need to build their packages;
it should be trivial for them to list the dependencies explicitly!

Besides, if source dependencies were completely autodetectable, we wouldn't
need them.

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