On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 08:04:37PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > 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 > [...] base-files Depends on awk, which makes awk "virtually essential" (it's necessary for it to be virtually essential because awk is after all a virtual package, provided by multiple real packages). Santiago is right, there really is no need to Build-Depend on awk or any of its variants here. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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