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Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato



>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org> writes:

    Steve> On 09-Sep-00, 02:57 (CDT), Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote: 
    >> >>"Chris" == Chris Waters <xtifr@dsp.net> writes:
    >> 
    Chris> Actually, since policy is already available on-line, it's quite
    Chris> possible that many debian developers *don't* have the policy package
    Chris> installed.
    >> 
    >> Hmm. Don't we all have task-debian-dev installed?

    Steve> I suspect a good many of us don't have *any* task-* packages installed,
    Steve> esp. if our initial install predates the task packages. Once one has a
    Steve> nicely set up system, why would I mess with the task packages?

Add to that the fact that most task-* packages are too overbroad (why
does task-debian-devel install cvs?  I rather install my own under
/usr/local)...

Bye, J

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