> Before forcing the maintainers to make themselfes the work to figure > these dependencies out we should tell them that such a list already > exists! (And don't tell me that they should have known it from > various discussions under strange topics in some lists!)
The central source dependency list is by far not complete and at all not accurate... First, things like bison, flex, perl, debhelper, ... are or might be missing, either because I haven't discovered them in the past, or (debhelper, perl) were considered essential is the sense of the central src deps. Also, the -dev dependencies might be too much (also indirect deps pulled in) or the versions too restrictive. The maintainer is in a better position to say what his package needs... Roman