On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:05:30 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > And practical usage has shown that distinguishing between bootstrap, cross > > and test deps is genuinely useful. Doko has also expressed this opinion, > > and in is one of the few people that has used this seriously. So I really > > wouldn't want to go back to the simple 'Build-Depends-Stage1: <stuff>' > > implementation. I agree with Guillem on this. > Distinguishing between test deps and build-deps is purely an optimization, > it doesn't enable any fundamentally new capabilities.
Slightly different topic but: Having build and test requirements separated would also help for autopkgtest, cf. eg. #720458. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `-
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