Build dependency exceptions (was: Re: [Bug 184530] Review Request: perl-RPM2)

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On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 17:36 +0000, Tim Jackson wrote:
> bugzilla@xxxxxxxxxx [really paul@xxxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> 
> > I would suggest the following:
> > 
> > Instead of:
> >  - MUST: A package must not contain any BuildRequires that are listed in the
> > exceptions section of Packaging Guidelines.
> > - MUST: All other Build dependencies must be listed in BuildRequires.
> > 
> > I'd have:
> >  - MUST: All build dependencies must be listed in BuildRequires, except for any
> > that are listed in the exceptions section of Packaging Guidelines; inclusion of
> > those as BuildRequires is optional.
> 
> I'd wholeheartedly agree with this (I've been looking at some packages
> that I'm considering submitting and finding the removal of BR's just
> because they happen to be in the current list of "standard" ones a bit
> hard to swallow, especially when I might ideally like to use those in
> other environments where the encoding of some BR's that are in the
> Fedora "standard" list would be helpful)

My +1 to the "I'd have" wording above.  Others, spot?

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