Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato
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- Subject: Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato
- From: Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 23:42:49 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20000830234249.B29954@polya>
- In-reply-to: <20000830130630.A4230@molehole.dhis.org>; from stevegr@debian.org on Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 01:06:30PM -0500
- References: <20000829080203.I6955@gaia.iki.fi> <20000829092919.A5724@murphy.nl> <20000829120823.A11158@gaia.iki.fi> <20000829205408.A26589@silly.cloud.net.au> <87lmxgvwcj.fsf@glaurung.green-gryphon.com> <20000829155239.B13399@molehole.dhis.org> <4.3.2.7.0.20000829170030.00b83b90@armstrong.cse.buffalo.edu> <20000830112651.C694@molehole.dhis.org> <20000830205147.C19062@gaia.iki.fi> <20000830130630.A4230@molehole.dhis.org>
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 01:06:30PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> Which is just a stupid pain in the ass. I had to track through three
> different references and finally install the "build-depends" package to
> find out what I could leave out of by "Build-Depends" stanza. It would
> *much* easier for developers, if less ideologically pure, to just list
> the damn packages on the Developers Corner part of the website.
Could we add this as a footnote to the relevant section in policy or
the packaging manual (can't remember which offhand)?
Julian
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