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Re: Is debhelper build-essential?



* Hamish Moffatt (hamish@debian.org) [050114 00:45]:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 02:26:52PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:19:03PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > Also of interest is that some 1300 packages would no longer need to 
> > > declare a Build-Depends: at all with those changes, and another 1200 
> > > wouldn't need to declare a Build-Depends-Indep:.

> > Not even versioned depends?

> Not if build-essential included a suitable versioned depends, like
> debhelper (>= 4). It already does that for gcc.

That would still mean a versioned dependency on build-essential.


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Andi
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