On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.5.2.0
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Policy should now require packages to specify build time dependencies
> (i.e., packages which require ... MUST specify...)
I just checked: in policy 3.1.1.1, they were a MUST (section 2.4.2).
I don't know when that got lost. So we'll go back to it.
On the question of how to handle RC bugs or not, I'll make a separate
meta-proposal tomorrow.
Julian
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