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Re: Build-failures



On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Santiago Vila wrote:

> Steve Langasek wrote:
> > These are both dependency lines, not build-depends.  You should *never*
> > build-depend on libc6, as it is an essential package; [...]
>
> Minor nitpick: libc6 is not essential, only essential-de-facto, since
> most essential packages depend on it. Policy explicitly forbids
> libraries to be essential.

Oops, what a stupid post... you were mixing depends and build-epends
all the time...

libc6 is build-essential, naturally.



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