On 20000902T124921+0200, Arthur Korn wrote: > BTW: why is it even a seperate package? IMO the build-essential > list should be included with ether the debian-policy package or > the packaging-manual. This way every debian developer has this > lists in a sensible place already installed.
There were several reasons: 1) the current system allows maintaining the list separately from the policy documents (the list does not need the kind of control that the policy documents do) 2) the package brings in the build-essential packages using the depends relation 3) the separate package allows bug reports against the package to be categorized separately from the policy management process that uses the BTS BTW, task-debian-devel depends on build-essential, so many Debian developers have the package installed anyway. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%%