Re: The use of Build-Depends: libc*-dev
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 12:32:02AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> I suppose you are proposing to remove the libc*-dev dependency because
> an appropriate libc-dev package will be build-essential on each
> platform.
In that case version dependecies can still require a depend line. But I
agree it makes porting hard if unneeded retrictions to build dependencies
exist. On the other hand, developers can't test all dependencies, so if they
are a bit restrictive, they prevent a lot of bug reports :)
Greetings
Bernd
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