Re: The use of Build-Depends: libc*-dev
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 07:51:22PM +0100, Thomas Schoepf wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 11:01:40AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
> > The issue recently came up on IRC that many (many!) packages seem to have
> > a Build-Depends: libc6-dev; so many, in fact, that it appears that the
>
> Why do they build-depend on libc*-dev anyway? There's no need for it.
What about packages which really do depend on glibc and won't build with
another libc? (One of the BSD ports is using its own libc, for example.)
I suppose you are proposing to remove the libc*-dev dependency because
an appropriate libc-dev package will be build-essential on each
platform.
Hamish
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