Re: Source dependencies: are we ready?

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

> At 00:14 +0100 1999-10-26, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> >Just a question which I haven't thoroughly investigated yet:
> >
> >I'm about to add #41232 (source dependencies) to the next policy
> >version.  But will this break existing tools?  In particular, will the
> >dpkg* tools yet be able to build a package using a Source-Depends:
> >field, or will they die?  If the latter, then we need a dpkg NMU
> >(Wichert? Ben?) before this can be placed in policy.
> 
> wtf? when did the proposal change to "Source-Depends:"? there's no 
> evidence of that in the logs.

Sorry, I was doing things from memory.  The proposal says:

+      <p>
+        This is done using the <tt>Build-Depends</tt>,
+        <tt>Build-Depends-Indep</tt>, <tt>Build-Conflicts</tt>, and
+        <tt>Build-Conflicts-Indep</tt> control file fields.
+      </p>

and that is, of course, what I was going to use.

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
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