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Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato



On 20000830T234249+0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> 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)?

Um, the current note in policy manual is not sufficient?  (It explicitly
mentions the package "build-essential".)

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