Re: Bug#443769: rt2500-source: Missing dependency on bzip2
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:03:38 +0200, Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> said:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 08:44:50AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>> 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.
> m-a don't need build-essential. It needs the compiler (nothing else
> like libc headers) for the kernel. The debian linux headers already
> depends against the correct compiler.
Not good enough. What if I am using m-a with kernel.org kernel
sources? I won't have a kernel-headers package installed (I don't). If
you need something, depend upon it. Don't depend on some package you
do not even depend upon to transitively provide you with stuff; the
package you are blithely dependent upon might change its dependencies,
and your package will be up the creek without a paddle.
m-a works just fine to help me compile third party modules with
locally compiled kernels. So, if it needs bzip2, it should depend on
bzip2.
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/>
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