Bug#457151: dpkg-dev -- should not reorder Build-Depends

2007-12-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Fine by me. But do you think this calls for a bug against those packages which unnecessarily depend on atlas due to this change? I can file wishlists against those, and they surely should not need atlas, as they have been without it earlier. It makes

Bug#457151: dpkg-dev -- should not reorder Build-Depends

2007-12-20 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 09:40:22AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: It makes sense, at least as long as we have no way to differentiate the generic build requirement from the build requirement on official Debian buildd. Thanks. I shall do so, for those packages which I am concerned about. It's

Bug#457151: closed by Guillem Jover [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Re: Bug#457151: dpkg-dev -- should not reorder Build-Depends)

2007-12-20 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Guillem, Yes, I'd say those are bugs on the packages. There's no guarantee on what's going to be present on the build environment, except for the build dependency relationships. I shall start filing wishlist bugs against such packages. I have already done so against octave2.9. But I

Bug#457151: dpkg-dev -- should not reorder Build-Depends

2007-12-19 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 12:20:40PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: As this has caused enough damage already (e.g. octave2.9, numpy etc.) not unnecessarily depend on atlas. Therefore, I chose to file this as serious. Please feel free to downgrade severity if you feel so. I meant octave2.9, numpy