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Re: Source dependencies



On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 10:49:27AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Have we decided on source dependencies?

Yes, see policy/packaging manual version 3.1.0.0, policy section 2.4.2,
packaging chapter 8.

> Does the tools involved actually enforce (or even work with) them?

The wanna-build suite used by autobuilders seems to understand and use
them (reading their NEWS file).  The dpkg-dev tools ignore them most of
the time.

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