Dear Mentors, I am about to package a graphical software, and I must properly design a "Build-Depends" stanza in the control file. My concern right now is whether I am allowed to prune the enumeration so hard that the primary dependencies pull in all secondary and tertiary ones, thus circumventing a natural desire to also mention build dependencies that exist but are "shadowed".
The particular case that comes to my mind is "libgtk2.0-dev", which depends on "libpng12-dev" and "pkg-config", which I otherwise would have mentioned, out of informational purpose, as build dependencies of the package. Clearly, I would not have mentioned all secondary dependencies, only those that do directly influence the package at build time. Best regards, Mats Erik Andersson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101109160848.ga14...@mea.homelinux.org
