Re: ITP: build-essential

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

> As previously discussed on -policy, I am announcing my intent to create
> a new metapackage called `build-essential'.  Its primary function is
> to serve as the informal list of build-essential package referred to by
> the forthcoming policy edition.  It fulfills this mission in two ways:
> 
>  * It will Depend: on all non-essential packages which are build-essential
>  * It will install a file /usr/share/doc/build-essential/list, which
>    contains the informational list of build-essential packages.

Given this, would people be agreeable to me modifying the text of
policy as follows:

 <p>
   It will not be necessary to explicitly specify build-time
   relationships on a minimal set of packages that are always
   needed to compile, link and put in a Debian package a
   standard "Hello World!" program written in C or C++.  The
   required packages are called <em>build-essential</em>, and an
-  informational list will be published separately from this
-  document.
+  informational list can be found in
+  <tt>/usr/share/doc/build-essential/list</tt> (which is contained
+  in the <tt>build-essential</tt> package).
 </p>

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
        Debian GNU/Linux Developer,  see http://www.debian.org/~jdg