Re: Build-depends question

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:10:09AM +0200, Javier Vi?uales Guti?rrez wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm intending to fix a silly build-depends bug. I'd did it like this:
> 
> Build-depends: [...], docbook-to-man
> 
> It seems that it's needed more build-depends entries for man page
> generation, the bug is #97513 against hptalx package. 
> 
> I thought that "Build-depends" calls his entries and his dependencies but
> the bug #97513 shows me another thing :-?

No, you are right: all you need is docbook-to-man.  See policy,
section 2.4.2 where this is explained in detail.

   Julian

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