Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato
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- Subject: Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato
- From: Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>
- Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:21:57 +0200
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20000830112157.B3362@xs4all.nl>
- In-reply-to: <20000829082216.A25268@silly.cloud.net.au>; from hamish@debian.org on Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 08:22:16AM +1100
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On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 08:22:16AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 06:21:55PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> > I doubt you know what the logic was.
>
> No, I don't, because I can't see any logic in excluding debhelper.
I don't know how the decision ended up being made, but the argument
I presented at the time is that a dependency on debhelper is far more
likely to be versioned than the others are. A package that makes use
of a new feature of debhelper is going to have to declare its own
build-depends anyway.
Richard Braakman
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