Re: A tool to help making (build) dependencies right.
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 02:13:02PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:58:13AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > 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.
>
> genbuilddeps seem better for build-dependencies, but depcheck is more flexible
> and can also be used for run-time dependencies, also it lack the libvfork trick
> (but it is easy to merge that.)
Do you want to go ahead and do so? I'd be happy to incorporate it
into devscripts (which seems a sort of logical place to put it, rather
than in a separate package).
> These kind of tools should be advertised to new maintainers (or maintainers
> with new packages), because using the autobuilders for checking
> build dependencies is a slow (and rather frustrating) process.
Agreed.
Julian
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