severity 128444 normal thanks On 9 Jan 2002, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Please don't build-depend on zope, it's postinst is interactive which > > means it can't be installed by build daemons. Gregor suggested a > > better solution in #86722 (namely that the needed header files be > > copied to zope-zpatterns source), please use that instead. > > I grant that this is a better solution, but it's not clear to me why > it's "serious". Policy doesn't have any such rule at present. > (Though, indeed, I would supporting adding such a rule.) >... I do agree with Thomas: - it's currently perfectly legal for a package to have an interactive install - it's also allowed to build depend on a package with an interactive install I do understand the problems for autobuilders and it should ideally be fixed but IMHO it's not a RC bug in zope-zpatterns. cu Adrian
