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Bug#59350: glibc_2.1.3-5(frozen): Missing build dependencies



At 15:58 +0100 2000-03-01, Roman Hodek wrote:
>This definitively uses perl, which isn't included in the build
>dependencies. It also looks likely that the troffprepro script calls
>groff, at least the access time of this file has changed...

No, it doesn't.

>BTW^2: It isn't really nice IHMO that glibc build-depends on perl...
>This generates another big cycle in build deps, which can bite new
>architectures or people that want to recompile the distribution from
>scratch. But if there's no easy way around this, I guess we have to
>live with it :-(

I can knock that down to a Build-Indep-Depends, how'd that be?
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Joel Klecker (aka Espy)                    Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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