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Re: NMU and ./configure



On 20000927T182035+0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> configuration system should probably be patched so that you can. Anybody
> should be able to install all the build-dependencies, build the package,
> and get the same result as before (assuming they have the same version
> of all the build-dependencies as the maintainer).

No.

Anybody should be able to build a package when its build-time dependencies
are satisfied and end up with the same result as anyone else.  This is
a policy recommendation.  If this is not true, it's a bug.

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