Re: FTWCA Policy Section 7.6 (Build-Depends/Build-Depends-Indep)

[Carlo Segre <segre@iit.edu>]

hello All:

Quite a number of the Debian Perl packages are on this list.  How shall we 
handle this.  I can (and mostly have) take care of the ones I am most 
responsible for but should I use some spare time to fix others?

Carlo

On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Pierre Habouzit wrote:

>  I've listed all the packages that list dbs, cdbs, dh-make-php,
> debhelper, yada, dpatch or quilt in their Build-Depends-Indep, and ...
> 2106 source packages are affected, which rules out any mass bug filing.
> I've instead setup a dynamic (regenerated once a day) list of the
> packages with this bug on people.d.o[3]. Also note that most of those
> problems are already reported by lintian (at least for the usual patch
> helpers, debhelper and cdbs).
>
> Greetings,
>
>
>  [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-sourcebinarydeps
>
> [2] pbuilder asks you to install Build-Depends if you miss them, but do
>     not ask for B-D-I (and it *is* the right behaviour), and then
>     builds can fail.
>
> [3] http://people.debian.org/~madcoder/policy_7.6_violation.txt
>
> --·
> ·O·  Pierre Habouzit
> ··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
> OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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