On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 08:44:50AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > It would be consistent with m-a's handling of build-essential. However, > I think m-a should depend on build-essential since it always requires > it. Therefore we are still undecided about bzip2.
m-a don't need build-essential. It needs the compiler (nothing else like libc headers) for the kernel. The debian linux headers already depends against the correct compiler. Bastian -- One does not thank logic. -- Sarek, "Journey to Babel", stardate 3842.4