On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:20:01AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > my understanding of build-essential is that the package gives people > an easy way to have a system capable of compiling a C(++) program. > There is nothing in it that inherently gives one the ability to make > deb packages.
Were that true, then we should probably remove dpkg-dev from the build-essential list. But I don't think it's true. From the description of the build-essential package: This package contains an informational list of packages which are considered essential for building Debian packages. I think that debhelper definitely qualifies as much as g++ does, although I do still agree that there are currently good short-term reasons for not including debhelper yet. Longer term, though, I definitely think we should consider reopening the question. cheers -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra- osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico- to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | volcaniconi- standalone haiku
