Am Sonntag, den 05.06.2011, 15:11 +0100 schrieb Neil Williams: > On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:46:44 +0200 > Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org> wrote: > > > A few days ago, we had a discussion about a packaging-dev meta package. > > > This package is just for packaging, not for developing. So gdb, pylint > > and co. won't go into it. This package should be installed by packagers. > > No other package should depend or build-depend on packaging-dev. > > I'd suggest that a wishlist bug is filed against lintian to set an > error if any package (source or binary) lists a dependency (or even > Recommends) on the packaging-dev binary. Time should be allowed for > lintian to implement this check before this package is uploaded, > unless the lintian maintainers disagree. Done (bug #629308). > It would also be sensible to have a summary of the quoted paragraph in > the package description. Done, but a proper long description is still missing. Anyone with good writing skills volunteering? -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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