On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 08:46:39AM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > El 4/1/23 a las 2:32, Sam Hartman escribió: > > > > > > > "Santiago" == Santiago Vila <sanv...@debian.org> writes: > > > > Santiago> As an example, packages tzdata, mount or e2fsprogs are not > > Santiago> build-essential and afaik have not been for a long time, > > Santiago> but there are still people who believe that they are > > Santiago> build-essential for the mere fact that they are > > Santiago> priority:required. > > > > Why not just make all required packages build-essential? > > I agree we should fix the class of bugs you are talking about, but it > > seems like in some cases it might be easier to fix them by declaring > > them not buggy. > > Because required to build != required in a _running_ system
At minimum, it should not be allowed to Build-Conflicts with a required package. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
