Bug#217945: dpkg-dev: should depend on build-essential
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 12:56:08PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > I'm confused: policy talks about build-essential packages and
> > Build-Depends etc. in the same breath, if I'm not very much mistaken.
> > (Sections 4.2 and 7.6.) I just don't understand the distinctions
> > you and Wichert are making.
> Build-Depends is a field, that lists the build-time dependencies for a
> package. dpkg-checkbuilddeps enforces this.
> debian-policy has decided to not list build-essential packages in this field.
> This was a policy descision.
> Other systems that use dpkg may not make this same descision.
Mmm. That doesn't really help *our* users very much though, does it?
I'm not sure what can be done about this anyway though -- if we add a
check for libc6-dev by whatever means, how do we cope with packages that
Build-Conflicts: libc6-dev?
But if there /is/ something that can be done, we should work out a way
of doing it.
Cheers,
aj
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