On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Julien Cristau wrote: > > In other words, how about something like this patch? > > I don't think that's a good idea at this point. A year ago, maybe. > > One issue Sven mentioned on irc is that an unknown number of packages > would start shipping /usr/share/info/dir.gz on rebuild if we were to do > this.
What about a Recommends instead of a Depends? buildd do not install Recommends AFAIK so it would not introduce breakages on bin-nmu. And it would give the proper hint to apt-get which is that he's supposed to install install-info on upgrade. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
