Re: Draft policy 3.1.0.0 now available

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 10:56:45PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> >      in C or C++. The required packages are called _build-essential_, and an
> >      informational list will be published separately from this document.
> > 
> > I don't see that list.
> 
> I've been thinking about publishing this list as a task metapackage called
> task-build-essential or something.  It would have several advantages:
>    * anybody who wishes to build a package needs only install this
>      package and whatever the package specifies
>    * all build-time dependency implementations get to use the
>      *same* list very easily
>    * we get the handling of several versions of the list (one
>      for stable, one for unstable) for free from the usual release process
>    * it will be easy to report bugs in the list: just bug the
>      metapackage
> 
> What do people think?

I think it's a very good idea.

[ BTW: In addition to the Depends: field, you may put the list of
  packages somewhere in /usr/share/doc/whatever-you-call-it ].

Thanks.

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