On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 01:04:47PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 01:41:40AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > Policy should now require packages to specify build time dependencies
> > (i.e., packages which require ... MUST specify...)
> I object to this; in sid there are 4284 source packages, of which 2237 have
> Build-Depends, meaning this would remove approximately 2047 packages from
> Debian.
Oh, in addition, (as you can probably guess from the number of packages
that don't have build-depends), the autobuilders are able to cope correctly
with packages without build-depends.
The only RC issue is when build-depends are present, but are incorrect.
Cheers,
aj
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