On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 01:42:28PM +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> Indeed it probably could be written as
>
> Build-Depends: libgpm-dev [linux-any]
>
> But the obvious drawback would be the requirement to know all architectures
> where this package is available.
> In this case Build-Depends configuration will be ineffective against changes.
That's the problem I have with mudlet.
libluajit-5.1-dev [amd64 armel i386 kfreebsd-i386],
liblua5.1-0-dev [!amd64 !armel !i386 !kfreebsd-i386],
It's not pretty and basically means if other arches come along and
support libluajit I have to manually fix it. I don't think I could use
"or" | because it didn't work on some build systems.
A "or nothing" would be handy but I always get worried that you will
miss linking because of a transistional "bump" then the program
behaviour changes.
Imagine if on the armel libluajit is not available temporarily. I think
its better to fail to build than to issue out a package without that
linking.
Specifically to your testing, valgrind testing should probably be
opportunistic, so test if valgrind is available and don't otherwise. I
think dejagnu does it that way.
- Craig
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