On 01-Sep-00, 15:04 (CDT), "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Steve Greenland wrote: > > > Those people would be equally well served by a note or check at the > > beginning of the debian/rules file; we didn't need policy and a new > > control file headers for that. > > > > Alright. What if apt-get source was enhanced so it would pull down any > packages needed to build? If you didn't have build-depends where would it > get that information from?
I didn't say that individual users couldn't benefit from Build-Depends, only that it isn't *necessary*. Once you've implemented it, yeah, enhancing other tools to support it makes good sense. But I don't think it would have been worth doing except (primarily) to support the porters/auto-builders. They (or at least some of them, I forget the details) were trying to maintain similar info in a central repository, which was a pain when the requirements of package changed. Requiring the individual maintainers to track this makes sense. Steve -- Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
