Build-Depends question re: yacc, ctags, etc.

1999-11-12 Thread David Coe
If this has already been discussed, please just point me to it; I must have missed it... Yacc and ctags are provided by many different packages, and managed by update-alternatives, but there is no virtual package corresponding to either of them. I suspect there are other similar situations. I

Re: Build-Depends question re: yacc, ctags, etc.

1999-11-12 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 08:13:54PM +, David Coe wrote: Yacc and ctags are provided by many different packages, and managed by update-alternatives, but there is no virtual package corresponding to either of them. ... What should I do? Thanks. Contact the maintainers of such packages and

RE: Build-Depends question re: yacc, ctags, etc.

1999-11-12 Thread arto . astala
If you know, or suspect, that some might not do then make that knowledge explicit (at least by not listing all similar packages). All the packages providing *tags are probably pretty equivalent, but yacc, byacc, bison etc. have differences that mean that some grammars are not acceptable to all of

Re: Build-Depends question re: yacc, ctags, etc.

1999-11-12 Thread David Coe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you know, or suspect, that some might not do then make that knowledge explicit (at least by not listing all similar packages). All the packages providing *tags are probably pretty equivalent, but yacc, byacc, bison etc. have differences that mean that some