Re: build-depends in old-style package descriptions

24 Sep 2007


      On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 10:02:52AM +0100, Ross Paterson wrote:
...
Could we not just replace
(deps, libfs1) = partition ((`elem` constraintFieldNames) . fName) libfs0
  libfs = if null libfs1 && not (null deps)
      then [F (lineNo (head deps)) "buildable"
      "False"]
      else libfs1
with
(deps, libfs) = partition ((`elem` constraintFieldNames) . fName) libfs0
Is there any reason not to do this?  It would simplify the interface for
clients.