Re: new lmodern package
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> Dear Florent!
>
> Good to hear that you are back!
>
> On Fre, 10 Feb 2006, Florent Rougon wrote:
>> I have a few remarks and questions on the new package:
>
> Good, you are welcome:
>
>> 1. IMHO, the Build-Depends -> Build-Depends-Indep change is wrong:
>>
>> ,----[ http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200310/msg01460.html ]
>> | * If your package only builds binary-all packages, you can choose
>> | whether to use Build-Depends-Indep or Build-Depends. However many
>> | packages need Build-Dependencies for the clean target (dh_clean), if
>> | this applies you must use "Build-Depends".
>> `----
>
> This I definitely do not udnerstand. The dh_clean does nothing more in
> our case than remove the debian/lmodern directory and the generated
> debhelper scripts, why should this force the use of Build-Depends.
Because dh_clean is in debhelper which is not build-essential.
> I can't believe this, and also lintian complains about the
> Build-Depends.
I didn't look at what lintian says, but I guess the right solution would
be to put debhelper into Build-Depends, and the rest in Build-Depends
indep.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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