On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 12:18 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> The 'build-essential' package itself is not build-essential, it's a
> helper package depending 'accidently' on all build-essential packages.
Does that mean that packages shouldn't be build-depending on the
build-essential package it
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 12:42:45AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:34:01PM +0200, Arjan Oosting wrote:
>
> > > > If it really should not be done, maybe a check could be added to lintian
> > > > and/or linda and CDBS and the policy should be updated.
> > >
> > > There *is
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:34:01PM +0200, Arjan Oosting wrote:
> > > If it really should not be done, maybe a check could be added to lintian
> > > and/or linda and CDBS and the policy should be updated.
> >
> > There *is* a lintian check for this, and there is no need for policy to be
> > update
> 4.2. Package relationships
> [...]
>
> When specifying the set of build-time dependencies, one should list
> only those packages explicitly required by the build. It is not
> necessary to list packages which are required merely because some
> other package in the list of bu
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 03:35:42PM +0200, Arjan Oosting wrote:
> Op ma, 27-06-2005 te 10:56 +0100, schreef Neil McGovern:
> > Hi there, you appear to be depending on build-essential without using a
> > versioned depends.
> > In general a package should not depend on build essential packages but
>
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 04:22:54PM +0200, Arjan Oosting wrote:
> But whether or not this is a good feature of CDBS, the real question is
> whether build dependencies on build-essential are only allowed when they
> are versioned?
Well, they only make *sense* when versioned -- an unversioned depend
Op ma, 27-06-2005 te 15:45 +0200, schreef Ondrej Sury:
> On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 15:35 +0200, Arjan Oosting wrote:
> > As it is nowhere forbidden in the policy and I use CDBS to generate
> > debian/control from debian/control.in (not a build-time though) and CDBS
> > adds the reference to build-essen
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 15:35 +0200, Arjan Oosting wrote:
> As it is nowhere forbidden in the policy and I use CDBS to generate
> debian/control from debian/control.in (not a build-time though) and CDBS
> adds the reference to build-essential in the Build-Depends, I am
> inclined to leave build-essen
Op ma, 27-06-2005 te 10:56 +0100, schreef Neil McGovern:
> Hi there, you appear to be depending on build-essential without using a
> versioned depends.
>
> In general a package should not depend on build essential packages but
> if it must do so, the depends should have a version string.
Hi Neil,
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