Re: question

[Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com>]

Dionysis Kalofonos wrote:

> Hello Raphael,
> 
> thank you for replying.
> 
> Raphael Geissert wrote:
>> That's what Build-Depends are for: there you specify the name of the
>> packages required to build the package; and of course you can use ORed
>> dependencies, e.g. Build-Depends: foo | bar
> 
> i can  understand that Build-Depends are considered when a package is
> built from source using dpkg.
> 
> However, if you get the source and do
> 
> configure && make
> 
> i don't see how Build-Depends could be considered.
> 
> My idea is to add a little something in the configure script so as to
> make a few suggestions when files that we check for are missing. Is this
> silly/pointless?

IMHO yes; there are README's and INSTALL's, but...

> 

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer
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