On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 04:19:18PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > As I don't want to get requests to specify packages which are not part > of the controls build-depends (for that, I really would like to seen > an source upload), I consider checking that only packages are depended > on that are part of the source package dependencies anyways (we still > could get a newer version). For conflicts, I don't think that is > advisable, as we might need to conflict with an intermediatly broken > version of something indirectly depended on.
So for conflicts we would suddenly be able to fix up builds without touching debian/control, that sounds bad in terms of reproducability. Additional dependencies could be helpful, though. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- .''`. Philipp Kern Debian Developer : :' : http://philkern.de Stable Release Manager `. `' xmpp:[email protected] Wanna-Build Admin `- finger pkern/[email protected]
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