* Junichi Uekawa | Another aspect is maintenance cost. Auto* tools and docbook toolchain, | and tex toolchain may break, which means packages no longer | build. This, I believe, shouldn't really be considered a reason not to | build-depend; because it will be the users who will suffer from a | broken package that doesn't really build.
If you need to change, say, configure.ac and nobody has tried generating configure from it using the tools in the archive, this can be a serious problem when doing a security upload. -- Tollef Fog Heen ,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]