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Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main (was: Bug#353277: should be in contrib)



Josselin Mouette writes:

> Le dimanche 19 février 2006 à 08:40 -0500, Michael Poole a écrit :
> > > If you hadn't already shot your credibility, you just did.  Anthony
> > > listed a dozen or so packages in Debian which require nasm in order to
> > > build.  How can you "see no packages" when he gave you an explicit list
> > > of them?
> > 
> > I assumed that the relationship would show up on the binary package
> > pages of pdo.debian.net, or as rdepends on nasm's source package page.
> > They do not.
> 
> Indeed. If you don't know what a build-dependency is, may I suggest that
> you read the basic Debian developer documentation before trying to
> contribute on that Debian development mailing list?

I am quite familiar with Build-Depends and what they mean; however, I
assumed that a certain web site would have certain basic functionality
(similar to what is in aptitude) when it does not.

Please note that even though I think you are acting like an idiot in
this matter, I do not make insulting suggestions based on the
assumption that you are in general an idiot.  Could you please return
the favor?

Michael Poole



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