On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 06:13:37AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 06:00:07AM -0500, BugScan reporter wrote: > > > Package: cvs (debian/main) > > > Maintainer: Eric Gillespie, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > 95263 missing build dependency > > The policy says: > > A source package may declare a dependency or a conflict > > on a binary package. > > Then why is missing build dependency considered an RC bug?
Entirely missing build-dependencies are not RC bugs. Incorrect
build-dependences are. That is, if you say
Build-Depends: foo, bar
but you actually need bar-dev, or also need baz, then that's an RC
bug. If you actually just needed foo, that's not.
The autobuilders can cope with missing build-dependencies (they have a
list of which packages build-depend on which other packages from before
the build-depends: field existed), and correct build-depends: lines.
Anything else makes the builds die.
> Some 3.x policy version added build dependencies. If your package follows
> said policy, then it must have correct build dependencies. Note, that said
> policy version itself is not mandatory.
This is not correct. All packages have to follow current policy: if they
miss out on most issues, that's a bug, if they miss some other issues,
that's an RC bug. It doesn't matter what Standards-Version they claim.
Cheers,
aj
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