Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster wrote: >> In the original package's control file, there is a line of >> Build-Depends-Indep, but no Build-Depends. Does this make sense for a >> source package that has no architecture dependent binary packages at >> all? Why not just use Build-Depends here and use Build-Depends-Indep >> only when a source package yields both kinds of binary packages? > > If you hadn't asked here, I'd be inclined to think that you're looking > for something beyond "because that's what policy tells you to do" (in > the section on debian/rules)...
Either I don't understand your sentence, or I have a problem reading the policy. In file:///usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ch-miscellaneous.html#s-debianrules I can find statements about the targets binary-arch and binary-indep and the respective build-targets. But there's nothing about Dependency-fields in the control file. Also in Chapter 7, "Declaring relationships between packages", I cannot find an explanation (probably because I didn't read thoroughly enough). Bye, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
