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Re: Trying to rebuild all of Debian Packages



On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Joey Hess wrote:

> So? You take this, and you change the "may" to a "must":
>
>      A source package may declare a dependency or a conflict on a binary
>      package, indicating which packages are required to be present on the
>      system in order to build the binary packages from the source package.
>
> Then you add, "If the source package requires only build-essential packages
> to build, it need declare no dependencies or a conflicts."

But then you have self-contradiction.  You don't with it as a may.



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