On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 01:13:24AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > > 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.] I was going to suggest 'libfaad-dev | ubuntu-minimal' :) > 1: In fact, forget that I even mentioned this method; it's all kinds > of ugly. Aww :( -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
