Re: dependencies for autoconf
Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> writes:
> I am torn between the two possibilities. On one hand, Debian policy is
> clear that packages should have full dependencies on all the programs
> that they may invoke. On the other hand, Ralf has a reasonable argument
> that it is the package being autoreconf'd that has the dependency, not
> autoconf itself. Many packages that use autoconf do not use libtool or
> gettext.
It's allowable for optional functionality or commands that are not the
main purpose of the package to fail even with all Depends installed. I'd
leave the other autotools at Recommends.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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