Bug#41232: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Build-time dependencies on binary packages
- To: Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>, 41232@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#41232: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Build-time dependencies on binary packages
- From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 22:24:47 -0700
- Message-id: <[🔎] 19990731222447.H23337@kitenet.net>
- Reply-to: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>, 41232@bugs.debian.org
- In-reply-to: <v04205509b3c935d545ed@[206.163.71.146]>; from Joel Klecker on Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 09:20:53PM -0700
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Joel Klecker wrote:
> I just realized I have to object to this proposal
I hope this isn't another case of a formal objection without even talking it
over first?
> on the grounds that
> it doesn't allow me to correctly specify glibc's source depends.
> I need them conditional on DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM, e.g. for Linux-based
> GNU systems I need to depend on kernel-headers-<version>, for
> HURD-based GNU systems I need hurd-dev and gnumach-dev (at least, I
> think I do).
> I'm not sure how many other packages might need conditional source
> depends, this could be a specialized requirement.
Why not make some virtual packages. All kernel-headers-* packages provide
both, the hurd-dev and gnumach-dev packages each provide one.
--
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