Re: package-uses-debhelper-but-lacks-build-depends ?
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:03:22 +0100, Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> said:
> andremachado wrote:
>> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), libncurses5 (>= 5.5-2 ), libselinux1
>> (>= 1.30-1 ), libsepol1 (>= 1.12.24-1 ), php5-dev (>= 5.1.0 ),
>> automake (>= 1.6.3 ) | automake1.7 | automake1.8 | automake1.9,
>> sun-java5-jdk (>= 1 ), locales (>= 2.3.6.ds1-4 ), gcc (>= 3.2 ), make
>> (>= 1 )
> it's not needed that you depend on different automake versions. if it
> works with automake1.9, just depend on that only.
>> I verified that libc6 is essential, but make, gcc, automake, locales
>> are not, but standard priority.
> but they are in build-essential, which you don't need to depend on
> too.
Minor clarification: build-essential means you don't need to (and
shouldn't) build-depend on it (unless it is a versioned build-depend).
But if the package needed it when it was installed (which usually isn't
the case), you would still need to depend on it.
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