On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Scott James Remnant wrote: > The stats: > > 8,920 source packages in Debian unstable main. > 8,254 declare a build-dependency on debhelper > > = 92% of packages build-depend on debhelper. > > Is that sufficient to declare it build-essential?
No, it's not by definition, as you don't *need* it for a simple "hello, world" package written in C. The fact that there are policy compliant packages in the archive not using debhelper is the most simple proof that it's not build-essential. Don't confuse build-essential with build-popular. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
