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Bug#340746: lists cdbs twice in debian/control (Build-Depends)



On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 05:04:48PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 15:26:58 +0000
> Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> wrote:
> 
> > You list cdbs twice in debian/control (Build-Depends):
> > 
> > | Build-Depends: cdbs (>= 0.4.23-1.1), debhelper (>= 4.1.0), quilt,
> > | patchutils (>= 0.2.25), cdbs (>= 0.4 .27-1), dh-buildinfo, xmlto
> 
> I know. It is due to the way that file is semi-automatically generated.
> 
> What is buggy about it?

It is ugly, redundant, confuses parsers, and with that attitude it
would be ok to list a dependency a hundred fold.

Greetings
Marc

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