Re: Bug#217945: dpkg-dev: should depend on build-essential
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Mmm. That doesn't really help *our* users very much though, does it?
Well, it's never been dpkg's design to enforce *debian* policy. Otherwise,
tools like lintian and linda wouldn't be nescessary.
> 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?
There is the libc6.1 issue as well. And hurd, *bsd, etc.
> But if there /is/ something that can be done, we should work out a way
> of doing it.
As far as dpkg is concerned, there isn't a problem(I'm sorry to say it like
that, but that's how Wichert and I feel, when wearing our dpkg hats for this
issue).
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