On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 10:36:59AM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> Steve Langasek wrote:
> > If type-handling is not present, then you have a broken build environment,
> > because type-handling is listed in the Build-Depends: field for samba and
> > Build-Depends *are* required to be present when running the clean target.
> Well, dpkg-buildpackage doesn't require them...

Then I would say that's a bug in dpkg-buildpackage.

> Really, I do think that it's good taste to be able to run
> dpkg-buildpackage -S without (most) build-dependencies and 99% of all
> packages don't have a problem with that.

I think you'll find that with the rise of cdbs, the percentage is
significantly lower than that.  In fact, it looks like nearly 10% of packages
are using cdbs today, for better or for worse.

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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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