On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 08:29:23AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > Joel Baker writes: > > reopen 177674 > > retitle 177674 Missing Build-Depends on autotools-dev > > severity 177674 minor > > > > Packages which directly access the scripts from autotools-dev (such as > > the cp -p command placed into GCC in the last version) need to declare a > > Build-Depend on the autotools-dev package. > > why? automake depends on autotools-dev. Formality/completeness; since gcc-3.2 is using the scripts directly, rather than via automake, it should have a direct dependancy listed (since, technically, automake could drop it's dependancy somehow, even if this is never likely to actually happen). It is a relatively minor thing, though I believe required by Policy (it's too late for me to try to look up chapter & verse, if you want them I can look tomorrow); mostly, though, it's good form to be explicit about anything you're using directly, even if it's pulled in by something else. -- Joel Baker <fenton@debian.org>
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