On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl<alexan...@schmehl.info> wrote: > Hi! > > Mathieu Malaterre schrieb: > >> My question is simply: how do express that only one Binary package >> requires a particular Build-Depends package, but the other remaining >> Binary package should be fine ? > > You can't. You specify build-depends for _source_ packages, which in turn > build the binary packages. And since you can't specify to build a specific > binary package anywayą: Why would you need to specify that a build > depends is only needed for a single binary package?
Let's consider one source package 'foo' which can be build using a --enable-super-duper-3rd-party-lib. My control file is then: ######################## Source: foo Build-Depends: super-duper-3rd-party-lib ... Package: libfoo ... Package: libfoo-super-duper-3rd-party-lib ... ######################## Clearly only 'libfoo-super-duper-3rd-party-lib' 'Build-Depends' on package 'libfoo-super-duper-3rd-party-lib', which make libfoo only available on the limited subset of Arch for libfoo-super-duper-3rd-party-lib... Clearly this is an issue with availability on Arch, but I do not see how to express: "Use libfoo-super-duper-3rd-party-lib only if available" (I would then need to tweak debian/rules but this should be easier). Thanks, -- Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
