Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato
On Mon 28 Aug 2000, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> On 20000828T153322+0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
> > anyway. BTW, what is the list of "build essential packages"? I'm
> > assuming that gcc libc6-dev etc. don't need to be put in. However,
> > this isn't discussed in the packaging manual at section 8.7.
> Policy manual, section 2.4.2.
>
> An informational list can be found in package `build-essential'.
> (NOTE: Don't file bugs about debhelper against this package. They will
> be summarily closed. If you feel that the criteria for selecting
> build-essential packages are wrong, bug debian-policy.)
[ I don't read debian-policy ]
Hmm, the dependency on make is flawed, as it is perfectly
possible to write debian/rules that is a perl script, for
example.
Anyway, as long as there is no requirement for packages to comply
with a given standards version that mandates the use of build-depends,
I'm not going to bother to upload a version that has only that changed;
and that was the point of this thread.
If someone wants to create another build daemon (for i386!) and can't
be bothered to install debhelper, I personally am not going to feel
sorry for them.
Paul Slootman
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