Hi, Tim Wootton: > or just build without the dependency in the 1st place like it used to be. > After all it's not like it adds anything that's essential. > Most dependencies don't add anything that's "essential" in the strict sense. The vast majority of uses of computers aren't essential either, but that didn't stop us yet. ;-)
IMHO it's maintainer/upstream choice whether to call on the "new" library's features, even on systems where they are not (yet?) useful. (Maintaining patches also is busy work if avoidable.) -- -- Matthias Urlichs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
