Bug#1029831: debian-policy: Make required packages build-essential

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>]

El 28/1/23 a las 14:07, Ansgar escribió:
> +---
> | The required packages are called build-essential, and include packages
> | with Priority "required" and additional packages. An informational
> | list of additional packages can be found in
> | /usr/share/doc/build-essential/list (which is contained in the
> | build-essential package).
> +---
>
> This only documents existing practice as practically all systems have
> required packages installed.

(I replied in -devel but should have replied here).

What you call current practice is only current debootstrap behaviour.

There are already packages in bullseye having build-depends
on tzdata, and afaik it was not me who reported them to have such
build-dependency. If current practice was really not to consider
tzdata as build-essential, as you say, somebody would have reported
those build-dependencies as a bug, because we don't use build-depends
when the package is build-essential.

I would say, therefore, that current practice all this time has really
been to report those bugs and fix them, i.e. current practice is
that tzdata is not build-essential, despite debootstrap behaviour.

Thanks.