Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, I'm suggesting that build-depends could simply have an unversioned > depends on debhelper. The buildds would then always[1] have the latest > version of debhelper[2]. No effort required of the build-depends maint.
But build-time dependencies aren't just for buildd's. Humans need them too. I wouldn't like to have to compile a package and fail near the very end just because it hasn't declared a proper versioned build-depends on debhelper. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
