Re: Proposed Autoconf 2.50 path

[Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@msu.edu>]

Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no> writes:

> | Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> writes:
> | 
> | > On Fri, 25 May 2001, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> | > > If a package doesn't declare a build-depends on autoconf then it
> | > > isn't allowed to use it at build time, since autoconf is not
> | > 
> | > If it doesn't declare any build-depends at all, it might use autoconf, so
> | > one must manually check :(
> | 
> | I think that's also a bug, and hence not really my problem either:
> | 
> | 2.4.2. Package relationships
> | ----------------------------
> | 
> |      Source packages should specify which binary packages they
>                        ^^^^^^
> 
> should, not must.  And we have packages which is compliant with old
> policy - Build-Dependencies are quite new.  So not specifying
> build-deps is not an RC bug.

But it *is* a bug that should be fixed.  Is there *ANY* way for
me to check all 4186 of Debian's packages?  I don't think so, but
if you have suggestions, I'm open to them.
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