Joerg Jaspert <jo...@ganneff.de> wrote: > there are currently two ways to indicate what Debian considers > "Build-Essential". There is the package build-essential and there is > also a flag in the packages files.
> We think it was used to be able to calculate the B-E packages by "just > looking at the packages files", but we do not see a good reason to have > it so. Simply installing the build-essential package plus dependencies > should do the trick too. > As far as we know currently the main user of this field seems to be > debootstrap in its buildd variant mode. If anybody else is using this it > would be useful if we could know about it, [...] Just for reference, cdebootstrap does not use the field, it installs the build-essential package. cu andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/g5a368-kra....@argenau.downhill.at.eu.org
