On 29-Aug-00, 16:05 (CDT), Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would it make sense to make policy something like "All official Debian > auto-build machines will have installed this set of build packages: gcc, > ..., and debhelper. Debian packages are not required to specify build > dependencies on these packages."
That's pretty much the definition (or at least the *use*) of Build-Essential: packages that may be assumed to be present, so that they need not be listed in Build-Depends. Repeating myself: listing a tool as build-essential does not mean that packages are required to use it, just that packages my assume that the tool is present. Steve -- Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)
