Hi, > Date: 17 Jul 2000 10:17:55 EDT > To: [email protected] > From: Itai Zukerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: new fields in debian/control > > > > * Origin > > > This lists the origin of a package. For all Debian packages this should > > > be `Debian'. > > Will the package building tools be patched to only allow Debian > packages to depend on Debian packages? That is, to issue a warning > > * if you attempt to build A as Origin: Debian, and > * if A depends on (recommends, suggests) B, and > * if the B on your system doesn't have Origin: Debian? > > -itai
Hell, no! I hope not, because I have local package ideas that need to depend on packages in other realms. However, your message brings up an interesting point.... Can a depend relationship point external to its realm? Like, if say non-free were split off of debian and a packaging archive plus bts were built for it, and further assume that the split was clean and not a fork, you might have packages in that realm depending on a debian package... But packages in debian's main should only point at another pkg in main, or to nothing (if, say, it were statically linked). The question still stands tho: if a complete packaging realm were to be built, could packages depend on packages in other packaging realms? -Jim --- Jim Lynch Finger for pgp key as Laney College CIS admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.laney.edu/~jim/ as Debian developer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/~jwl/
