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Re: Are build-dependancies mandatory?



bas@debian.org (Bas Zoetekouw) writes:

>   If a package requires any binary package in order to be build from
>   source, it must declare a dependency on that package. 

It isn't *quite* that simple.  Explicit build dependencies should only be 
for packages that are neither essential nor build-essential.

Bdale



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