Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 20000927T182035+0100, Colin Watson wrote: >> configuration system should probably be patched so that you can. Anybody >> should be able to install all the build-dependencies, build the package, >> and get the same result as before (assuming they have the same version >> of all the build-dependencies as the maintainer). > >No. > >Anybody should be able to build a package when its build-time dependencies >are satisfied and end up with the same result as anyone else. This is >a policy recommendation. If this is not true, it's a bug.
I couldn't see it in policy, which was why I weakened my original statement. I was going to leave out the version clause, except I thought that it probably wasn't true: for instance, building a package with the slink version of debhelper will produce a package with documentation in /usr/doc, whereas building a package with the potato version of debhelper will produce a package with documentation in /usr/share/doc and the /usr/doc symlink. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
