Re: Bug#70196: automatic build fails for potato
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 01:27:06AM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote:
> Oh, come off it! section 8.7 of the packaging manual says "may" in
> reference to build-depends, so not doing so cannot be a bug. Also, to
> expect everyone to state a build dependancy on debhelper is
> ridiculous! You can't reasonably expect to auto-build packages without
> having it available. I'm therefore closing this bug.
Goswin could also explain why he filed reports against potato packages
only. This is a strange choice in general IMHO, filing many many bugs
like them I mean, and I don't like it, but I would have seen it just a
bit more correct if it was related to unstable packages.
bye
Christian
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