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 really don't like the justification of the revert, thus I'm inclined > > to not revert it and close the bug. But I'd like to have the opinions of > > other dpkg developers first. > > Agreed, and I've just done so. Thanks for the clarification, and I apologise for the false alarm. :-) Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036
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