On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 10:08:32AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > problem is when following unstable, one sometimes has debhelper > depends change fairly often. No sense forcing the build-depends > maint to keep up with joeyh's rapid upload rates.
That's a reasonable argument for now, although we may want to reconsider when/if debhelper stabilizes a bit. Which may not be too far in the future. At this point, the vast majority of packages could probably safely build-depend on debhelper >= 3.0.0 -- I know all of mine can. Some can even still build-depend on unversioned debhelper, but I'm switching to the 3.0.0 dh_installman for most. I've never had a package that didn't build-depend on either unversioned debhelper or 3.0.0. > Besides, debhelper is not truly essential many package still do not use it. That's a very flimsy argument. Lots of packages don't use gcc, huge numbers don't use g++, but both of those are considered build-essential. Bottom line, I think the short-term arguments against making debhelper build-essential are decent, but long-term is another matter. -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra- osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico- to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | volcaniconi- standalone haiku
