Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato
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- Subject: Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato
- From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
- Date: 02 Sep 2000 00:56:40 -0500
- Message-id: <[🔎] 87wvgvwd47.fsf@glaurung.green-gryphon.com>
- In-reply-to: Julian Gilbey's message of "Wed, 30 Aug 2000 23:42:49 +0100"
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>>"Julian" == Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk> writes:
Julian> 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.
Julian> Could we add this as a footnote to the relevant section in policy or
Julian> the packaging manual (can't remember which offhand)?
Rather than having an old, potentially outdated, and thus
misleading, note in policy, would it not be better to instead improve
the visibility if the build depnds package and arrange to have the
updated contents present on the web page?
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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