Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato

[Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <gaia@iki.fi>]

On 20000828T172935+0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
> > 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.

If you find a flaw in my application of the criteria, bug reports against
build-essential are welcome :-)

BTW, note that Packaging Manual section 3.2.1 requires that debian/rules
is a makefile.

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