Bug#462021: dependencies for autoconf

2008-01-23 Thread Michael Biebl
Ben Pfaff wrote: In bug #262021, Norman Ramsey reported that the "autoreconf" script provided by the autoconf package runs automake. Since at the time autoconf merely recommended automaken, instead of depending on it, this could fail. To fix the bug, I changed the recommendation to a dependency

Bug#462021: dependencies for autoconf

2008-01-23 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 09:08:47 -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: > I am torn between the two possibilities. On one hand, Debian > policy is clear that packages should have full dependencies on > all the programs that they may invoke. I disagree with that. Quoting policy 7.2: The `Depends' fiel

Bug#462021: dependencies for autoconf

2008-01-23 Thread Ben Pfaff
In bug #262021, Norman Ramsey reported that the "autoreconf" script provided by the autoconf package runs automake. Since at the time autoconf merely recommended automaken, instead of depending on it, this could fail. To fix the bug, I changed the recommendation to a dependency. In response, Ral