On 30 May 2005 at 14:20, Steve Langasek wrote:
| > Don't think so. Mawk is priority required. It can be assumed to be present.
|
| No, it cannot. You are only ever allowed to assume that packages that are
| Essential: yes (or in the case of build-dependencies, part of
| build-essential) are present.
Ok, point taken.
| It would probably be better if r-base-dev simply specified "awk", which IIRC
| is "virtually-essential" by virtue of being a dependency of an essential
| package.
I like that much better. So now the changelog stands at
* debian/rules: configure call with AWK="/usr/bin/awk"
* debian/control: Build-Depends on mawk | gawk | awk
* debian/control: Depends for r-base-core on 'mawk | gawk | awk'
This is subtler than Chris' patch imposing mawk which is dislike: given that
we have the choice, we should honour it.
| In any case, I've tagged this sarge-ignore because being
| virtually-essential, mawk is available on all Debian buildds -- accounting
| for the lack of *actual* build failures on archs other than amd64.
Thanks, this sounds good to me.
Dirk
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