On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 06:52:21PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > > (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.
I'm confused: policy talks about build-essential packages and Build-Depends etc. in the same breath, if I'm not very much mistaken. (Sections 4.2 and 7.6.) I just don't understand the distinctions you and Wichert are making. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, website: http://www.polya.uklinux.net/ Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see: http://people.debian.org/~jdg/ Visit http://www.thehungersite.com/ to help feed the hungry