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Re: Woody Backport of tripwire



On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 03:48:59PM -0400, Phillip Hofmeister wrote:
> Therefore, in my mind, "it is mean for sid" is not an excuse to omit a
> build dependency.  What is to say there won't be a g++2 and g++3 package in
> sarge when it is released?

If the build dependency is part of "build-essential" then it doesn't
need to be explicitly stated by a given package.  apt-cache show
build-essential or see
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-pkg-relations

noah

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