Re: why is Perl Build-Essential: yes?
On Thu May 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM BST, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
Does anything actually _use_ the Build-Essential: yes line?
I honestly don't know. I expect so, or the ftp-masters wouldn't be
adding it to packages. Having it in the control metadata makes it
visible to users (apt show foo).
I personally feel that splaying the definition of build-essential across
policy; the Depends: of package build-essential; the contents of
/usr/share/build-essential/list; the contents of
/usr/share/build-essential/essential-packages-list *and* FTP overrides
is not ideal (especially since they don't agree), but I'm not currently
planning to work on this.
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