<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/12/5 Yaroslav Halchenko <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:debian@onerussian.com">debian@onerussian.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009, Paul Harris wrote:<br><br>
</div><div class="im"><br>
> That might indeed be a problem, but I don't know of any debian programs<br>
> that have Build-Depends on kdtree... how do I find that out?<br>
</div>try<br>
grep-dctrl -sPackage -F Build-Depends libkdtree++-dev /var/lib/apt/lists/*_debian_dists_sid_main_source_Sources<br>
on a Debian system (package dctrl-tools)<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><br>I didn't find anything on my system, so thats good I think.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">
> If you see the messages. If the user is Grandma and all the messages<br>
> go to syslog, then we may go quite some time before someone notices<br>
> that the app needs to be changed.<br>
</div>kdtrees + grandma ? wow ;)<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><br>software isn't just written for people who care how computers work... plenty of users of software are users that will click the X button if an error message appears, instead of investigating. so sometimes software must break before problems become known to those who care about error messages.<br>
</div>And if we can make the software break at the compile stage (ie before packaging and shipping), then the end-user need never see an error message or deprecated warning.<br></div><br>