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Re: RFS: copher (2nd try)



On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire
<debian@jwiltshire.org.uk> wrote:

> Ah, this fixes a query I had from long ago: I had ${misc:Depends} in
> the build dependencies and it broke things, now that it's in Depends
> everything is as expected.

build-deps

> What does this substitution get expanded to and by what? Since taking
> it out made the package build without errors, I didn't take much notice
> of it.

Anything run during the build process can add to it. Specifically:

dpkg -L debhelper | xargs grep misc

You should always use it even if you don't use any of those because
any debhelper command might use it at some point.

The debhelper manual page has a few sentences about it.

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


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