On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 12:56:08PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > I'm confused: policy talks about build-essential packages and > > Build-Depends etc. in the same breath, if I'm not very much mistaken. > > (Sections 4.2 and 7.6.) I just don't understand the distinctions > > you and Wichert are making. > Build-Depends is a field, that lists the build-time dependencies for a > package. dpkg-checkbuilddeps enforces this. > debian-policy has decided to not list build-essential packages in this field. > This was a policy descision. > Other systems that use dpkg may not make this same descision.
Mmm. That doesn't really help *our* users very much though, does it? I'm not sure what can be done about this anyway though -- if we add a check for libc6-dev by whatever means, how do we cope with packages that Build-Conflicts: libc6-dev? But if there /is/ something that can be done, we should work out a way of doing it. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Australian DMCA (the Digital Agenda Amendments) Under Review! -- http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/copyright/digitalagenda
