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Re: packaging-dev meta package



On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
<a.starr.b@gmail.com> wrote:
> Keep vcs specific tools (git-buildpackage, bzr-builddeb,
> svn-buildpackage) in the Recommends field so they are not hard
> dependencies.

The current version of the control field I've got sitting here has
build-essential in Depends and the rest in Recommends so people can
slim down at-will.

> I suppose you don't you don't list devscripts, gnupg, lintian, dput |
> dupload, and dh-make (there are probably some others) as they are
> pulled in by other packages. I would explicitly depend on them
>
> Recommends on pbuilder | cowbuilder?.

Can do

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan


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