Re: Build-Depends

[Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Roman Hodek <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> writes:

> > Can somebody explain to me why autoconf, automake and libtool should
> > ever be in a build dependency? They were designed with the goal that
> > compilation should be possible without them (and m4).
> 
> Many packages patch configuration stuff (configure.in, aclocal.m4,
> ...) in the Debian patch, and the autoconf & Co. have to be rerun.

So if I know I don't do this, I can savely leave it off the
Build-Depends line, even if it is mentioned in the autogenerated
builddeps, right?

	Falk