Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
* Package name : valgrind-if-available Description : dependency package to pull in Valgrind if it's available This metapackage installs Valgrind on architectures where it is available. As the list of archs where Valgrind works changes quite often, explicitely listing it as a [Build-]Depend is cumbersome and prone to being outdated. Instead, you may use this metapackage. It's basically a Build-Recommend, except for doing the right thing during temporary non-installability of valgrind (ie, your package will wait in BD-Uninstallable if valgrind is _supposed_ to be available). There's a crapload of packages that B-Dep on valgrind on some arches, every one manually listing them. This is tedious. This metapackage could be built from src:valgrind, but conditionalizing every bit of build is tricky (all normal stuff needs to be suppressed). This separate source brings one instance of redundant list, but has less moving parts.
