On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 09:38:18PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2007, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> > If the package does not build properly on a normal system, under the
> > circumstances you describe, that means there is a bug.

> > It does not mean that the correct fix for the bug is to change the
> > build-depends or the build-conflicts.

>  It is fixable by changing the build-depends or build-conflicts.

That doesn't mean that's the *right* fix.

Packages fail to build all the time because of broken build-dependencies
with fucked up handling of .la files.  That doesn't mean the answer is to
change the build-dependencies of the failing package.

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