Re: Build-Recommends?
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 08:14:03AM -0400, David Roundy wrote:
> Is there such a thing as a Build-Recommends? Or a workaround that would
> give you its equivalent?
>
> The problem is that darcs can be compiled either with or without
> libcurl2-dev. The configure script will nicely notice if libcurl isn't
> available, in which case it just uses an external program (either wget or
> curl) if one is available. So I'd like to remove the Build-Depends, so I
> won't have to use a modified control file for woody, and yet can get by
> without backporting libcurl2. Is there a solution for this?
That's a non-sense. A build package should be only 'required'.
It's your choice if it's more appropriate building two different
package flavors or just one (with/out libcurl2).
Generally upstream sources have the ability to enable or disable
optional features like that. Otherwise it's a maintainer's choice.
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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