On Mon 28 Aug 2000, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On 20000828T153322+0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > > anyway. BTW, what is the list of "build essential packages"? I'm > > assuming that gcc libc6-dev etc. don't need to be put in. However, > > this isn't discussed in the packaging manual at section 8.7.
> Policy manual, section 2.4.2. > > An informational list can be found in package `build-essential'. > (NOTE: Don't file bugs about debhelper against this package. They will > be summarily closed. If you feel that the criteria for selecting > build-essential packages are wrong, bug debian-policy.) [ I don't read debian-policy ] Hmm, the dependency on make is flawed, as it is perfectly possible to write debian/rules that is a perl script, for example. Anyway, as long as there is no requirement for packages to comply with a given standards version that mandates the use of build-depends, I'm not going to bother to upload a version that has only that changed; and that was the point of this thread. If someone wants to create another build daemon (for i386!) and can't be bothered to install debhelper, I personally am not going to feel sorry for them. Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.murphy.nl/ debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ isdn4linux: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.isdn4linux.de/
