On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 01:15:29PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 01:04:47PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 01:41:40AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > Policy should now require packages to specify build time dependencies > > > (i.e., packages which require ... MUST specify...) > > I object to this; in sid there are 4284 source packages, of which 2237 have > > Build-Depends, meaning this would remove approximately 2047 packages from > > Debian. > > Oh, in addition, (as you can probably guess from the number of packages > that don't have build-depends), the autobuilders are able to cope correctly > with packages without build-depends. > > The only RC issue is when build-depends are present, but are incorrect.
I can't speak first hand, but only from some of the bug reports I've received occasionally, and I think this makes the auto builder's job just at least a bit easier (having buil-depends) I think it should be MUST for sid (not woody). Seconded. -- Brian Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian/GNU Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org LPSG "member" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.lpsg.org -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
