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Re: package review for sitescooper 2.2.3-4



Hi,
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 06:43:20PM +0000, michael d. ivey wrote:
> >     You have set your Standards-Version line to 3.1.1 but you don't
> > have a Build-Depends line.  At the very least, your package is going
> > to have a build dependency on debstd, and probably others.
> 
> switched to 3.0.1
I did not look at your package, but I think downgrading the standard because
you do not want to provide Build-Depends is not very nice. Build-Depends are
there to make auto-compiling easier, not to torture the maintainer of a
package. Just add a Build-Depends: debhelper line to your control file and
add all other packages you need additionaly to build-essential packages.
See the build-essential package and my short notice on build-depends:
 http://www.debian.org/~cts/Build-Depends
This is written with the eyes of a porter, may not be totally correct, but
this describes what I, as a porter, want from Build-Depends. If you want
your package to be easily buildable on other arches as well, please provide
Build-Depends.

Thanks,
Christian


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