Bug#41232: AMENDMENT 1999-07-23 FINAL DRAFT] Build-time dependencies on binary packages

[Kristoffer.Rose@ENS-Lyon.FR]

Antti-Juhani proposes:

> This deadline is almost at hand.  I've produced a final draft of the
> amendment for your review.  Consider it frozen: i will not make any
> substantial changes to it anymore - only simple thinkos and typos will
> be corrected.  I hope we can get a consensus to back this amendment;
> otherwise, we'll have to reject it.  (There will of course be the option
> of starting a new proposal with new seconds and a new discussion period.)
>...

Thanks for a very thought out proposal!  Please, let us go for it: debian
has been without source dependencies for far too long.

Best,
	Kristoffer

PS. In case you are wondering: I know because I was offered in 1993 by Ian
Murdock to "take over the source package format of debian", an offer I
unfortunately had to decline due to lack of hardware (!) ... but I do
remember the lively discussion at the time and can only say that this
proposal does address all the concerns I remember from way back then :)
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