Re: include in mentors faq? Re: DFSG compliant packages (Solution)
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 12:08:07AM +0200, Ghe Rivero wrote:
>> Another one, it depends on some tools, like rpm2cpio to updated
>> properly. Should those tools be included as a dependecies on the control
>> file? It's not build time or a runtime depencie, Any filed to an
>> update-dependencie? :)
> It has to be a dependency of the new version of the package; this is
> policy 7.2:
> The `Depends' field should also be used if the `postinst',
> `prerm' or `postrm' scripts require the package to be present in
> order to run. Note, however, that the `postrm' cannot rely on
> any non-essential packages to be present during the `purge'
> phase.
That's a different sort of maintainer script. That section is for the
scripts that are run as part of package installation, which this isn't.
Depends is for things the package needs to run. Build-Depends is for
things the package needs to build. Things the package needs to run
get-orig-source or the like are neither, and therefore don't need to be
listed, IMO.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
Reply to: