Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Do you agree that the software in our archive should agree on which > packages are needed to build a source package? Currently, they do > not. dose3 requires only Essential:yes and build-essential being > installed. Who is buggy?
Well, the /informational/ list in build-essential could be updated if people find that required packages should be listed there explicitly as well. I find it not very interesting to try and reduce the set of packages used considered build-essential (which does include required packages in practice as buildds have those installed). (Also we do consider not installing "required" packages unsupported as per the description of what "required" is; so if your build environment doesn't include it, you are on your own.) Ansgar