Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. On the other hand, Ralf has a reasonable argument > that it is the package being autoreconf'd that has the dependency, not > autoconf itself. Many packages that use autoconf do not use libtool or > gettext.
It's allowable for optional functionality or commands that are not the main purpose of the package to fail even with all Depends installed. I'd leave the other autotools at Recommends. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
