Re: Trying to rebuild all of Debian Packages

[Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote:

>
> 	"If a source package requires a package which is not in the
>  build-essentials list to be able to build the binary package, or if
>  presence of a package prevents it from building, it MUST declare a
>  dependency or a conflict on the appropriate binary package,
>  indicating which (non-Essential) packages are required to be present
>  (or not present, in case of the conflict) on the system in order to
>  build the binary packages from the source package."

I have no problems with this version.  What Joey Hess was proposing was not
the above changes.

I knew what he wanted, but the way he specified it did not fly.