Re: Bug#443769: rt2500-source: Missing dependency on bzip2
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:10:52PM -0400, Edward Allcutt wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 11:26 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 01:03:38AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Maybe so, but "m-a prepare" installs it. I don't know why it doesn't
> > just depend on it instead.
> Perhaps because the specific compiler needed depends on what the
> current kernel was compiled with? I thought that was the reason
> linux-headers depended on a specific compiler version.
As I said, "m-a prepare" installs build-essential always. Therefore it
may as well just depend on it.
Hamish
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