Re: Does #322722 make sense?

[Jérôme Marant <jmarant@free.fr>]

Mike Furr <mfurr@debian.org> writes:

> Jérôme Marant wrote:
>> gcc and al are standard packages. Is this really relevant?
> Please don't depend on gcc.
>
> Policy says you don't need this dependency (4.2):
>    It is not necessary to explicitly specify build-time relationships on
>    a minimal set of packages that are always needed to compile, link and
>    put in a Debian package a standard "Hello World!"  program written in
>    C or C++.  The required packages are called _build-essential_, and an
>    informational list can be found in
>    `/usr/share/doc/build-essential/list' (which is contained in the
>    `build-essential' package).[1]
>
> and I see no reason to add it.

We're talking about plain dependencies, not _build-dependencies_.

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Jérôme Marant