Excerpts from Stefano Zacchiroli's message of søn mar 15 02:05:32 +0100 2009: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 01:07:15AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > In addition to including tg2quilt.mk, CDBS provides other > > functionality - specifically it provides hints about > > build-dependencies (including chain-loading to also resolve quilt > > build-dependencies, which is *not* just the quilt package itself). > > Is this relevant here? Build dependencies on topgit are not needed. > Also, topgit in Debian is also meant to be friendly to who knows > nothing about it and just rely on quilt. So it would make even more > sense to *not* include something topgit-specific in debian/rules and > rather stay put with something quilt-specific.
I believe it is relevant, yes. It sounds like you didn't actually look at my proposed snippet, containing the following comment: # This very makefile snippet ideally is provided by the topgit package # - see bug#513952. # Also, Debian Policy 4.14 implicitly recommends build-depending on # packages containing build documentation referenced from Debian.source. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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