[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: libxaw(7)-dev?



Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> Hi all,

Hi,

> I know, we had a similar issue a few days ago. Yesterday I had a look
> at that quality pages of tetex-bin. I could read, that tetex-bin has
> a build-Depend on libxaw7-dev | libxaw-dev . libxaw-dev isn't
> available on any architecture. Perhaps we should take it out. I don't
> know if it is still provided by libxaw7-dev.

My last mail on the issue (<87smi04dub.fsf@florent.maison> since you
have the whole -tetex-maint archive on your hard disk ;-) was in favour
of letting the B-D for sarge and remove it later, the rationale being
that it enhances tetex-bin's "portability".

However, this view is controversial: some people prefer having strict
Build-Depends in order to enhance the package's reproducibility
(however, I don't think they B-D on exact versions of every package, so
this argument clearly has its limits).

-- 
Florent



Reply to: