Bug#396567: [Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#396567: xen-3.0: missing libncurses5-dev in build dependencies

[Goswin von Brederlow]

Guido Trotter <ultrotter at debian.org> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 02:51:29PM +0000, alessandro ogier wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
>
>> Missing build-dep on libncurses5-dev in debian/control.
>> 
>
> This seems to be satisfied by the fact that libsdl1.2-dev depends on
> libncurses5-dev (indirectly)... Any comments on this?
>
> Guido

If xen itself uses libncurses5-dev then it must Build-Depend on it
even if something else does so too. Exactly for the reason that that
something else might drop their depends when they stop needing
it. Like libsdl in unstable.

MfG
        Goswin