[Build-common-hackers] Bug#327151: missing dependency on devscripts

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 03:12:54AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Package: cdbs
> Version: 0.4.32
> Severity: serious
> Justification: violation of release policy (clause 2)

> The command cdbs-edit-patch requires the command debclean to operate, which
> is in package devscripts, but there is no dependency or other
> relationship declared to that package.

Strictly speaking, opportunistic dependencies are allowed; if a package
includes optional utilities that are not required for the main purpose
of the package, it is generally considered acceptable to not list the
dependencies of those optional utilities.

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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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