Re: patch 004 is overkill
Branden Robinson wrote:
> That too. :) I also wanted to make it possible to reference any
> manual section from within a manual page without hard-coding the section
> numbers.
You wanted the section not to be dependent on the suffix? Is that correct?
> Because I never submitted them.
May I submit them. I doubt DD will accept them, but I would like to try.
> If you need imake, you B-D on the package that contains it.
>
> $ dpkg -S bin/imake
> xutils: /usr/X11R6/bin/imake
I figured that out after the message. Oops :-)
> $ % grep-dctrl -F Build-Depends,Build-Depends-Indep -s Package xutils
> /var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_source_Sources
> |wc -l 271
>
> Perhaps not all of those build-depend on imake (there are other things
> in xutils), but I'll bet you most of them do.
Maybe imake should be split into its own package so that this can be more
easily tracked?
> I disagree with your premise and your conclusion.
That is probably more sane than me :-). I was trying to make patches smaller
for the 4.4 cycle. Thanks for discussing this with me.
wt
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