On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:34:01PM +0200, Arjan Oosting wrote:
If it really should not be done, maybe a check could be added to lintian
and/or linda and CDBS and the policy should be updated.
There *is* a lintian check for this, and there is no need for policy to be
updated -- just
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 12:42:45AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:34:01PM +0200, Arjan Oosting wrote:
If it really should not be done, maybe a check could be added to lintian
and/or linda and CDBS and the policy should be updated.
There *is* a lintian
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 12:18 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
The 'build-essential' package itself is not build-essential, it's a
helper package depending 'accidently' on all build-essential packages.
Does that mean that packages shouldn't be build-depending on the
build-essential package
4.2. Package relationships
[...]
When specifying the set of build-time dependencies, one should list
only those packages explicitly required by the build. It is not
necessary to list packages which are required merely because some
other package in the list of
Op ma, 27-06-2005 te 10:56 +0100, schreef Neil McGovern:
Hi there, you appear to be depending on build-essential without using a
versioned depends.
In general a package should not depend on build essential packages but
if it must do so, the depends should have a version string.
Hi Neil,
I'm
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 15:35 +0200, Arjan Oosting wrote:
As it is nowhere forbidden in the policy and I use CDBS to generate
debian/control from debian/control.in (not a build-time though) and CDBS
adds the reference to build-essential in the Build-Depends, I am
inclined to leave
Op ma, 27-06-2005 te 15:45 +0200, schreef Ondrej Sury:
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 15:35 +0200, Arjan Oosting wrote:
As it is nowhere forbidden in the policy and I use CDBS to generate
debian/control from debian/control.in (not a build-time though) and CDBS
adds the reference to build-essential
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 04:22:54PM +0200, Arjan Oosting wrote:
But whether or not this is a good feature of CDBS, the real question is
whether build dependencies on build-essential are only allowed when they
are versioned?
Well, they only make *sense* when versioned -- an unversioned depends
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 03:35:42PM +0200, Arjan Oosting wrote:
Op ma, 27-06-2005 te 10:56 +0100, schreef Neil McGovern:
Hi there, you appear to be depending on build-essential without using a
versioned depends.
In general a package should not depend on build essential packages but
if it
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