[Pkg-scicomp-devel] libmesh/trunk/debian

[Ondrej Certik]

On Dec 15, 2007 2:09 PM, Frank S. Thomas <fst at debian.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 15 December 2007 13:51, Ondrej Certik wrote:
> > +  * Build-depends on g++, so that we build on buildbots
>
> This is not required, g++ is build-essential and Debian Policy says about
> build-essential packages:
>
>   "It is not necessary to explicitly specify build-time relationships
>   on a minimal set of packages that are always needed to compile,
>   link and put in a Debian package a standard "Hello World!" program
>   written in C or C++.  The required packages are called
>   _build-essential_, and an informational list can be found in
>   `/usr/share/doc/build-essential/list' (which is contained in the
>   `build-essential' package)."
>
> -- /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ch-source.html#s-pkg-relations

I know, but in this case it seems to be needed:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=455886

Ondrej