Versionned dependancies on build-essential packages. (was: Re: Where did Bacula 1.38.11-7+b1 come from?)

[Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org>]

Le Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 07:30:38PM +0100, Andreas Metzler a écrit :

> Build-Depends: dpkg-dev (>=1.13.19)
> Package: foo
> Architecture: all
> Depends: foo-binary  (>= ${source:Version}), foo-binary (<< ${source:Version}.1~), foo-doc (= ${source:Version})
> 
> Package: foo-binary
> Architecture: any
> Depends: foo-data (= ${source:Version})
> 
> Package: foo-doc
> Architecture: all

[Thread from -devel diverted to -mentors.]

Hi,

I was just wondering the reason why the build-dependancy on dpkg-dev is
necessary. Dpkg-dev is build-essential and is > 1.13.19 in unstable and
testing anyway. Couldn't this be safely omitted when uploading for
unstable ?

Have a nice day,

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Charles Plessy
http://charles.plessy.org
Wako, Saitama, Japan