Packaging Questions, New Debian Package, Packagers Guide
Shachar Shemesh
wine-devel at shemesh.biz
Tue Nov 23 05:25:13 CST 2004
Scott Ritchie wrote:
>However, I'm not sure if this means the wine binary package should
>depend on them, since it's compiled in. So, should I make libicu28 a
>dependancy for wine?
>
>
ICU is compiled statically. There is no runtime dependency on libicu. It
is an exception, however.
The general rule should be that the optional packages are build-dep, but
only "suggested" or "Recommended" (I've never really managed to
understand the difference between them) for the compiled result.
Shachar
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