Package: ftp.debian.org Hi,
It seems that at some point it time some packages got a Build-Essential field. This is the current list (for amd64): apt binutils build-essential cpio cpp dpkg-dev g++ gcc libc6-dev make patch perl perl-modules Why are those packages all marked like that? There are atleast 3 errors in that list: - cpio is not build essential, but it used to be pulled in by dpkg-dev - apt is not build essential, and I have no idea why anybody would think it is. - build-essential itself is not build-essential. It might be a handy way to get the build-essential packages, but nothing should need that package. The build-essential package itself has this: Depends: libc6-dev | libc-dev, g++ (>= 4:4.3.1), make, dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.5) Why do you force it on more packages? It seems to contain some of the depedencies that dpkg-dev pulls in, but not all, atleast not all current. Following policy, I think it should only be set for those packages: - libc6-dev [!alpha !ia64 !hurd-i386] | libc0.3-dev [hurd-i386] | libc6.1-dev [alpha ia64] - gcc - g++ - make - dpkg-dev - libc6-dev-sparc64 [sparc] - hurd-dev [hurd-i386] Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
