On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 11:32:25AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > 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.
http://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php?list=build-depends&package=&arch=ANY&dist=sarge and http://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php?dist=sarge&list=halfbroken-build-depends&arch=ANY Didn't count though. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl
