Re: serious bugs because of missing build depends

[Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>]

On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Peter Palfrader wrote:

> According to Policy Section 2.4.2. Package relationships
> Build-Depends only SHOULD be defined, Section 7 says the MAY
> be defined.
> 
>       
>       So lack of a Build-Depends line is NOT a serious bug.

There is a proposal to make build-depends a requirement.
| Bug#87510: [PROPOSAL] Make build dependencies a MUST
See debian-policy@l.d.o.

					yours,
					peter
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