On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 11:43:46AM -0500, David Starner wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 06:26:53PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> > debconf_0.3.81.dsc has:
> > Build-Depends: perl5, debhelper (>= 2.0.98), debconf-utils, gettext,
> > libapt-pkg-dev, g++
> > But dpkg -p debconf-utils says:
> > Depends: debconf (>= 0.3.31)
It also has `Source: debconf'
> There was a big flame war here about this sometime ago, because some
> packages (ocaml, gnat, gcc) absoluetly need the package to compile. So
> it can't be a policy violation without big changes. The best you can do
> is request that debconf not depend on itself.
The package should really be able to build the -utils part of itself
first, then use the -utils binaries it's just built to build the rest
of it.
Cheers,
aj
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