On 30-Aug-00, 04:21 (CDT), Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know how the decision ended up being made, but the argument > I presented at the time is that a dependency on debhelper is far more > likely to be versioned than the others are. A package that makes use > of a new feature of debhelper is going to have to declare its own > build-depends anyway.
It is not unreasonable to assume that the latest-and-greatest version of all the build-essential packages will be installed. If one is concerned about back-building (e.g. a woody package on a slink machine), then you need to worry about compiler and libc versions as well, so you might as well build everything. 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.)
