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Chapter 4
Source packages
4.1 Standards conformance
Source packages should specify the most recent version number of this policy document with
which your package complied when it was last updated.
This information may be used to file bug reports automatically if your package becomes too
much out of date.
The version is specified in the
Standards Version
control field.
The format of the
Standards Version
field is described in `
Standards Version
' on page
32
.
You should regularly, and especially if your package has become out of date, check for the
newest Policy Manual available and update your package, if necessary. When your package
complies with the new standards you should update the
Standards Version
source pack 
age field and release it.
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4.2 Package relationships
Source packages should specify which binary packages they require to be installed or not to
be installed in order to build correctly. For example, if building a package requires a certain
compiler, then the compiler should be specified as a build time dependency.
It is not necessary to explicitly specify build time relationships on a minimal set of packages
that are always needed to compile, link and put in a Debian package a standard  Hello World! 
program written in C or C++. The required packages are called build essential, and an informa 
tional list can be found in
/usr/share/doc/build essential/list
(which is contained
in the
build essential
package).
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See the file
upgrading checklist
for information about policy which has changed between different ver 
sions of this document.
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Rationale:
  This allows maintaining the list separately from the policy documents (the list does not need the kind of






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