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.

-- 
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