Re: A tool to help making (build) dependencies right.

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 08:00:52AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:24:22PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > Hello developpers,
> > 
> > I just wrote a perl script to help getting dependencies and especially
> > build-dependencies right. It is at
> > 
> > http://people.debian.org/~ballombe/depcheck
> 
> I know Ben Collins did something similar.  Check
> http://people.debian.org/~bcollins/
> I was thinking of packaging it at some point, but if you can merge the
> two, and package it, then by all means do so.

Actually, it's at http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins/genbuilddeps/

There is definitely value in merging the two; they each have different
strengths and weaknesses.  I might try to do so at some point, but
please feel free to go ahead with it.

   Julian

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