On Wed, 14 May 2008 21:49:54 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > > > > Hi, with a huge number of reverse build-dependencies, I think this needs a better > > > > plan. > > > As for building, perl-modules is currently always installed because > > > dpkg-dev is build-essential and pulls it in. It's not build-essential > > > itself, though. > > Hm, I guess as long as perl-modules is not build-essential we have to > > use 'perl-modules (>= 5.10.0) | libversion-perl' for policy > > compliance (and being nice to backporters). > Which policy section says Build-Depends can't contain virtual packages? No section I know of. My error was that I thought we'd remove libversion-perl from the build-deps because perl-modules get's pulled in anyway, and than I thought "but then we need to mention perl-modules as it's not build-essential ...". Don't ask me where this wrong assumption came from; and sorry for the noise. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : debian gnu/linux user, admin & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' member of https://www.vibe.at/ | how to reply: http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Rod Stewart
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