Re: Build-depend on source of a debian package

[Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@lysator.liu.se>]

Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> A debian package I'm making has as part of its source a (almost)
> verbatim copy of the source of a package that is already in debian. It
> works perfectly like this and it's only 916K, but it feels a bit of a
> waste to include it in the source package. 
> I can't however build-depend on the source of another debian package,
> can I? Should I ask for the other package to make an -dev package
> containing the source? This also doesn't feel right, because it's not a
> proper library... can make it into one of course...
>
> Comments?
>   
Can you reveal the name of that other source package? It sounds like it 
would be better if the package you're making were built from it instead.

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Magnus Holmgren