On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 09:29:28PM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote: > >>>>> "Chris" == Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Chris> Technically nothing really needs to depend on > Chris> xlibs-static-pic at runtime, but at the same time anything > Chris> that builds against anything it provides must Build-Depend > Chris> on it otherwise they won't work on hardly any of the archs > Chris> in Debian. Making libarts1-dev extra isn't really a good > Chris> idea but not depending on xlibs-static-pic means that all > Chris> KDE sources will have to add explicit build depends on > Chris> xlibs-static-pic. Perhaps just changing xlibs-static-pic to > Chris> optional would be the best solution? > > If you can get Branden to go along, then go ahead. However, I don't > understand the downside of changing the priority of libarts-dev. The > policy section I quoted explicitly permits Build-Depends against lower > priority packages. What concerns you about haing libarts-dev be > Priority: extra?
I suppose you didn't look at the domino effect making libarts1-dev extra would have. Chris
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