On 13 June 2005 at 18:43, Santiago Vila wrote:
| On Mon, 30 May 2005, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
|
| > On 30 May 2005 at 14:20, Steve Langasek wrote:
| > | It would probably be better if r-base-dev simply specified "awk",
| > | which IIRC is "virtually-essential" by virtue of being a
| > | dependency of an essential package.
| >
| > I like that much better. So now the changelog stands at
| >
| > * debian/rules: configure call with AWK="/usr/bin/awk"
|
| This is fine.
|
| > * debian/control: Build-Depends on mawk | gawk | awk
| > * debian/control: Depends for r-base-core on 'mawk | gawk | awk'
|
| But this is not. Please don't do that. As it has been already pointed out,
| awk is essential, so any dependency or build-dependency on
| 'mawk | gawk | awk' is completely gratuitous.
a) It actually is only required, and not essential:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> apt-cache show mawk | head -2
Package: mawk
Priority: required
[...]
b) I actually made exactly the same argument, but it was pointed out to me
that essential != build-essential. So I gave up arguing the issue and made
this change.
Dirk
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