Joel Klecker wrote: > I just realized I have to object to this proposal I hope this isn't another case of a formal objection without even talking it over first?
> on the grounds that > it doesn't allow me to correctly specify glibc's source depends. > I need them conditional on DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM, e.g. for Linux-based > GNU systems I need to depend on kernel-headers-<version>, for > HURD-based GNU systems I need hurd-dev and gnumach-dev (at least, I > think I do). > I'm not sure how many other packages might need conditional source > depends, this could be a specialized requirement. Why not make some virtual packages. All kernel-headers-* packages provide both, the hurd-dev and gnumach-dev packages each provide one. -- see shy jo