On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 12:11:41AM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 06:13:37AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > > > The policy says: > > > > > > A source package may declare a dependency or a conflict > ^^^ > > > on a binary package. > [...] > > Some 3.x policy version added build dependencies. If your package follows > > said policy, then it must have correct build dependencies. > ^^^^ > > I still don't understand why the policy (version 3.5.3.0) > doesn't simply say "must" rather then "may".
Some packages don't build depend on any beside the build essentials. You certainly need to make provision for them, so a simple s/may/must/ won't work. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de