Hi, Quoting Santiago Vila (2016-09-07 20:33:54) > Moreover, Markus suggested that I work towards "defining a common > build environment standard". Not sure what he meant by that. Do we > need such standard or we can still use the already existing set of > build essential packages? > > I would prefer not to bother the release managers or the technical > committee about this if anybody here could convince Markus that Bug #834744 > should be serious (not just because of policy but also because that's > how we usually file FTBFS bugs that happen because of missing build-depends).
indeed, there already is a definition of the "common build environment standard" and that definition is given by the relationships between packages in the archive and the implicit dependencies on Essential:yes and build-essential, just as given in the section of Debian policy that you described. I would be interested to hear what Markus means by defining a "common build environment standard" because then I'd like to present reasons why our current standard (Essential:yes plus build-essential plus Build-Depends minus Build-Conflicts) is an excellent way to define the set. Thanks! cheers, josch
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