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Re: packaging-dev meta package



On 11-05-26 at 02:20pm, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 04:52:38PM -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org> 
> > wrote:
> > > Recommends or Suggests:
> > > cdbs
> > > cmake
> 
> > My reasoning on these two was that some people probably aren't 
> > interested in switching from cdbs to quilt, so coming across 
> > packages still using it will be common for a while.  CMake is a 
> > corollary to autoconf and heavily used in KDE-land, which seems like 
> > a not-insignificant number of packages.
> 
> But in both cases, those should be pulled in as build-depends, no?
> 
> To have them as dependencies of this package sounds to me like you're 
> recommending these tools for use.

now this is getting interesting: This really is a debate on whether 
Debian should encourage or discourage development using CDBS and Qt?


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