Am Donnerstag, 13. Januar 2005 12:49 schrieb Santiago Vila: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > The stats: > > > > 8,920 source packages in Debian unstable main. > > 8,254 declare a build-dependency on debhelper > > > > = 92% of packages build-depend on debhelper. > > > > Is that sufficient to declare it build-essential? > > No, it's not by definition, as you don't *need* it for a simple > "hello, world" package written in C. The fact that there are policy > compliant packages in the archive not using debhelper is the most > simple proof that it's not build-essential. > > Don't confuse build-essential with build-popular.
There are packages which don't need a C or C++ compiler. So in your opinion we should remove both from build-essential ? Michael -- Homepage: http://www.worldforge.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
