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Re: package review for sitescooper 2.2.3-4



On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 02:05:45AM +0100, Christian T. Steigies 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

actually, debmake sets it to 3.1.1, whereas dh_make sets it to 3.0.1.
since i'm not fully caught up on the differences, i just went with
what the package tool did for me.

> 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

i'll check this out, and see what i can do.  is Build-Depends the only
major change from 3.0.1 to 3.1.1?

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