Re: Build-depends => change policy wording
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 07:28:31PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> Source packages should also not depend on other packages with higher
> priority, otherwise there could arise a situation where you can´t
> build a package because you can´t build another.
This is not useful. Priority rating for source packages is not useful at
all.
> Actually checking that all sources can be build is a fulltime
> job. There may not be any loops in the dependencies of sources (except
> for essential and required).
Again this is wrong. Circular build time dependencies are annoying but
common.
I am all for making it easier to bootstrap Debian, but let's first add
source deps, and after a year, we can analyze the data with graph theory.
Marcus
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