On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 12:32:06AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > >From current policy: > > When specifying the set of build-time dependencies, one should list > only those packages explicitly required by the build. It is not > necessary to list packages which are required merely because some > other package in the list of build-time dependencies depends on them. > The reason is that dependencies change, and you should list only those > _you_ need. What others need is their business.
When I asked a similar question some time ago,
I did not find anything like this in the policy.
I tried section 7.6 (Relationships between source
and binary packages). Is the statement above new,
or did I look in the wrong place?
Jochen
--
Omm
(0)-(0)
http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wwwstoch/voss/privat.html
pgpKDJgcaR1lA.pgp
Description: PGP signature
