Are build-dependancies mandatory?

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Subject: Are build-dependancies mandatory?
From: Marcin Owsiany <porridge@pandora.info.bielsko.pl>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 23:38:02 +0200
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In-reply-to: <20010427060007.A12568@debian.org>; from bugscan@debian.org on Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 06:00:07AM -0500
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On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 06:00:07AM -0500, BugScan reporter wrote:
> 
> Package: cvs (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Eric Gillespie, Jr. <epg@debian.org>
>   95263  missing build dependency

The policy says:

      A source package may declare a dependency or a conflict
      on a binary package.

Then why is missing build dependency considered an RC bug?
I know build-depends is a good thing, but shouldn't the policy
be changed then?

Marcin
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