On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 08:15:08PM +0200, 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. Ah, you're right of course. However, the appropriate libc-dev package is still build-essential, which means libc6 will be pulled in on even the strangest of machines. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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