Torsten Werner wrote: > The Build-Essential: yes field has been updated 2 months ago to better > match the declared Depends in the package build-essential as requested > in bug #548801.
It seems there is a misunderstanding about the purpose of the Build-Essential flag then. Obviously it is not to tag packages that are dependencies of the build-essential meta package. That would make the flag rather redundant as you'd get the same effect by just installing build-essentials. The real purpose is that it should contain any packages that are not essential themselves, but are required to set up a working base system for a buildd. From that perspective apt should be tagged Build-Essential. Simply because without apt you don't have a working build system. And build-essential should of course also be tagged, but IMO *not* any packages on which build-essential already depends. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
