Re: Debian (and RedHat) source package format (was Re: Qt and other)
Raul Miller writes:
> On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 12:13:52AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> > > In fact, I think that any exceptions to this general case should be
> > > classified as a bug. [Yeah, you have to work around this issue for
> > > bootstrapping a new os, but bootstrapping is a tangential issue.]
>
> Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> wrote:
> > Packages need what the upstream author makes them need. You can't call it a
> > bug because someone made a package that uses some oddball tool to compile.
>
> Yeah, but I can call it a bug that the prerequisite isn't packaged
> first.
hmm, is this a bug? For example to build tk8.0 you need tcl8.0 still
in it's build directory.
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