On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 08:14:03AM -0400, David Roundy wrote: > Is there such a thing as a Build-Recommends? Or a workaround that would > give you its equivalent? > > The problem is that darcs can be compiled either with or without > libcurl2-dev. The configure script will nicely notice if libcurl isn't > available, in which case it just uses an external program (either wget or > curl) if one is available. So I'd like to remove the Build-Depends, so I > won't have to use a modified control file for woody, and yet can get by > without backporting libcurl2. Is there a solution for this?
That's a non-sense. A build package should be only 'required'. It's your choice if it's more appropriate building two different package flavors or just one (with/out libcurl2). Generally upstream sources have the ability to enable or disable optional features like that. Otherwise it's a maintainer's choice. -- Francesco P. Lovergine
