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Re: Source dependencies: are we ready?



> autoconf ?
> bin86 ?
> ldso ?

All to specific, specially bin86 :-) (it's i386-only...)

> supporting stuff....
> tar ?
> cpio ?
> gzip ?
> bzip2 ?
> find ?
> perl ?

tar and gzip are already needed by dpkg and dpkg-source. BTW (contrary
to my previous post) I'd say we should omit (binary-)essential
packages, they have to be installed anyway on any system.

> less likely, but still possible...
> curses ?
> groff/man ?

Never.

> specialized...
> perl ?
> wish ?
> python ?
> jdk ?

Much too specialized :-)

Roman



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