Re: Is debhelper build-essential?
Am Donnerstag, 13. Januar 2005 12:49 schrieb Santiago Vila:
> 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.
>
> Don't confuse build-essential with build-popular.
There are packages which don't need a C or C++ compiler. So in your
opinion we should remove both from build-essential ?
Michael
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