clone 217945 -1 reopen -1 retitle -1 Remove mention in dpkg-buildpackage manpage about checking for build-essential severity -1 important thanks
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > We used to do this. But Wichert convinced me it was wrong, and the change > > was > > backed out. > > (1) You should then back out the change to the dpkg-checkbuilddeps > manpage as well. Ah, yes. Wichert overlooked that when he backed it out. > > (2) If it is not for dpkg to enforce policy, why run > dpkg-checkbuilddeps during dpkg-buildpackage, with an abort on > error? Because that's not policy, but a dpkg interface. > (3) A happy compromise could be for dpkg-checkbuilddeps to check for > the presence of build-essential (or for the build-essential > dependencies) and to warn (only) if any are not found, rather than > to exit with an error. Again, that's debian policy.
