On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 09:08:47 -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: > I am torn between the two possibilities. On one hand, Debian > policy is clear that packages should have full dependencies on > all the programs that they may invoke.
I disagree with that. Quoting policy 7.2: The `Depends' field should be used if the depended-on package is required for the depending package to provide a significant amount of functionality. autoconf provides a significant amount of functionality without automake, so there's no reason this should be a Depends imo. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]