Hi, On 21.08.2016 11:03, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Mechanisms like shlibdeps, dh_perl, and other substvars allow packages > to compute their Depends at build time. This avoids hard-coding > dependencies, simplifies upgrading the package to new versions, and > makes transitions much easier. Package builds typically happen in environments where the network is unavailable, so any information that could influence this decision must be contained in the source package itself (in which case the maintainer can update the control file as well), or in a build dependency (in which case that package could pull in the required other package). Simon
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