Bug#87510: PROPOSAL] Make build dependencies a MUST

[Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 10:54:48AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> What *is* reasonable is to say "I don't yet have time to deal with
> this."
> 
> So the source dependencies are a MUST, but we don't yet file RC bugs,
> probably not even normal bugs against missing source dependencies.

We can partially achieve that by allowing a range of Standards-Versions that
packages are allowed to have in a release. So, a maintainer whose package
doesn't have Build-Depends can leave the Standards-Version at a lower value
until he finds time to compile the list of build-deps.

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