On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 01:09:45PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 01:16:49PM +0200, Roman Hodek wrote: > > Therefore my suggestion to store the src-dep information somewhere in > > a file in the build tree. Do you have better ideas? > > I think my idea above is better, because it leaves the critical information > into the place where it belongs. Are there any disadvantages with my > suggestion?
The problem comes for the actual maintainer who wishes to update the source deps (and doesn't always use a .dsc, since he is just building a new package). The Build-* stuff should come from the debian/control file /after the package is built, but before the source tree is cleaned/. Ben