Re: miscfiles NMU?
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 11:18:42PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> writes:
>
> > Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
> >
> >> He fixed a borken Build-Depends-Indep which is a severe policy
> >> violation. So it was release critical. Build-Depends(-Indep), if
> >> present, MUST be correct.
> >
> > What are you talking about? miscfiles has no Build-Depends.
>
> >From the changelog:
>
> - Build-Depend-Indep on the patch package;
>
> http://release.debian.org/sarge_rc_policy.txt
>
> |4. Autobuilding
> |
> | Packages must list any packages they require to build beyond those
> | that are "build-essential" in the appropriate Build-Depends: fields.
>
> Going by the changelog you faild to list patch in
> Build-Depends-Indep. If you had no build depends so far it's a
> violation of the sarge RC policy and not debian policy. But still RC.
'patch' is virtually build-essential since dpkg-dev depends on it. I
fail to see why that dependency is needed.
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