Now you write me saying why should I assume they don't understand deepends. Your "line of questions" crosses itself and not for the first time. I don't owe an answer. -- John Jonathan Nieder wrote:
John D. Hendrickson wrote:Build-Depends. I wrote the dpkg team so I can expect they would know what depends are.Do you think that the dpkg team doesn't know what the Depends field means or what the state of its use is in the archive? Or do you have some question about what it means?