On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Anthony Towns wrote: > Mmm. That doesn't really help *our* users very much though, does it?
Well, it's never been dpkg's design to enforce *debian* policy. Otherwise, tools like lintian and linda wouldn't be nescessary. > 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? There is the libc6.1 issue as well. And hurd, *bsd, etc. > But if there /is/ something that can be done, we should work out a way > of doing it. As far as dpkg is concerned, there isn't a problem(I'm sorry to say it like that, but that's how Wichert and I feel, when wearing our dpkg hats for this issue).
