On Mon, 09 Feb 2009, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > - Build-Recommends would list packages that are basically available > in the Debian archive, but are not available on all architectures or > for all kernels.
Unfortunatly, making missing build-dependencies a non-fatal error causes builds to be non-deterministic. For example, consider a case where libasound2-dev was a no longer provided due to an API change to libasound3-dev, and for whatever reason, libasound3-dev wasn't installable on some arch subsets (perhaps because libasound3 hadn't yet been built.) > Why have I added libfaad-dev to the Build-Recommends? Because in > Ubuntu ffmpeg-debian is in the main section, while faad2 is not. So > in order to merge ffmpeg-debian to Ubuntu, the maintainer has to > manually remove this Build-Depends each and every time. As soon as > Ubuntu would support the suggested approach, this would be obsolete. I wouldn't be averse to some method of describing additional types of conditional dependencies, such as differentiating builds of packages on Debian and Ubuntu. [A hideous method of doing this[1]: Build-Depends: libfaad-dev | some-only-in-ubuntu-package.] Don Armstrong 1: In fact, forget that I even mentioned this method; it's all kinds of ugly. -- Let us chat together a moment, my friend. There are still several hours until dawn, and I have the whole day to sleep. -- Count Orlock in _Nosferatu (1922)_ http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
