Re: Thoughts about src-dep implementation
Roman Hodek <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> writes:
> > *Parts*, fine, I have no problem with parts. I was just a little
> > croggled by the example of trying to autogenerate *all* source
> > dependencies for the debian-policy package.
> The automatically generated parts will be only -dev packages for
> shared libs.
Great, then I'm in.
> > I think it may turn out to be more hairy than we think. For example,
> > [...]
> First: you can perfectly well source-depend on a virtual package.
Yes, absolutely, I'm just saying that it'll be tricky to autogen
source dependencies on virtual packages.
> Ok, there could be a tool (libtricks-based) that helps you
> constructing the non-auto-generated parts, but in this case still a
> human has the last decision. So virtual packages aren't a problem for
> this.
Absolutely -- I just wanted to make sure that point was clear. If it
is, then I have no further objections.
cheers
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