Le jeudi 13 janvier 2005 à 12:49 +0100, Santiago Vila a écrit : > On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > > The stats: > > > > 8,920 source packages in Debian unstable main. > > 8,254 declare a build-dependency on debhelper > > > > = 92% of packages build-depend on debhelper. > > > > Is that sufficient to declare it build-essential? > > No, it's not by definition, as you don't *need* it for a simple > "hello, world" package written in C. The fact that there are policy > compliant packages in the archive not using debhelper is the most > simple proof that it's not build-essential. So what? You don't need g++ for a simple hello world package in C, however g++ is build-essential. You don't even need gcc for a simple package containing data files. Following your line of reasoning, only make and dpkg-dev should be build-essential. > Don't confuse build-essential with build-popular. Why? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org `. `' joss@debian.org `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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