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Re: Bug#443769: rt2500-source: Missing dependency on bzip2



On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:51:10PM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt schrieb:
> > module-assistant installs build-essential it doesn't seem like space is
> > an important consideration.
> 
> When i read this sentence I had an idea of what would eventually be
> better. module-assistant is installing build-essential, you said. Why
> shouldn't it install bzip2 on demand? It would make sense, wouldn't it?

It would be consistent with m-a's handling of build-essential. However,
I think m-a should depend on build-essential since it always requires
it. Therefore we are still undecided about bzip2.

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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