Re: Build-Suggests?

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Subject: Re: Build-Suggests?
From: Arthur Korn <arthur@korn.ch>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 17:42:29 +0100
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20001108113835.A14205@crystal>; from hsteoh@quickfur.yi.org on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 11:38:35AM -0500
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H. S. Teoh schrieb:
> Quick question: is there such a field as a Build-suggests: ? One of the
> packages I'm maintaining (Smurf) has i18n support, but the build process
> does not *require* gettext -- it will support i18n if gettext is
> available, but it will compile just fine without it.

AFAIK if your app has gettext support, it would be an error not
to support it. IMO a Build-Suggests could make it more difficult
to track bugs and would make different builds inhomogenous, we
should really avoid it.

ciao, 2ri
-- 
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