Re: Build-Depends does not appear in section 5.6
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:53:48PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:10:26PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > Section 5.6 lists valid control fields, but omit Build-Depends et al,
> > which are mentionned in 7.6
>
> > Is it an oversight ?
>
> They are listed in the overview-paragraph in 5.2 ("The fields in the
> general paragraph (the first one, for the source package) are:..."),
> and the entry "Build-Depends et al" is correctly crosslinked to 7.6.
>
> The situation for "Depends et al" is identical, BTW.
>
> As there is a separate chapter "7 Declaring relationships between
> packages" this does not look like an oviersight to me but the correct
> way to not duplicate the whole stuff.
One could argue tht the same hold for Depends, Recommends, etc. (7.2) but they
still get an entry in section 5.6. (5.6.8).
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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