On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 01:04:47PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 01:41:40AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > Policy should now require packages to specify build time dependencies > > (i.e., packages which require ... MUST specify...) > I object to this; in sid there are 4284 source packages, of which 2237 have > Build-Depends, meaning this would remove approximately 2047 packages from > Debian.
Oh, in addition, (as you can probably guess from the number of packages that don't have build-depends), the autobuilders are able to cope correctly with packages without build-depends. The only RC issue is when build-depends are present, but are incorrect. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``_Any_ increase in interface difficulty, in exchange for a benefit you do not understand, cannot perceive, or don't care about, is too much.'' -- John S. Novak, III (The Humblest Man on the Net)
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