On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:02:17PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > I'd like to agree with you. > > > > But the first thing to achieve this would be to fix testing to honor > > build dependencies... > > Yes please. This would help the security team as soon as we have to > support testing (and eventually stable). However, we only need this > when testing is frozen until it is deprecated. > > I know that this will cause problems during the migration of packages > from unstable into testing. Hence, wrt security this would be sufficient > to be present when testing is frozen.
You really need it from the start of a release cycle so that people have time to fix the problems. It would be helpful if somebody could work out the number of build-dependency relationships currently broken in testing. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
