Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.8.0 Severity: important Currently, policy says that following about Build-Depends-Indep (section 7.6):
| The Build-Depends-Indep and Build-Conflicts-Indep fields must be | satisfied when any of the following targets is invoked: build, clean, | build-indep, binary and binary-indep. This makes no sense, because it would mean that Build-Depends-Indep dependencies would have to be installed anyway (for clean target for example) even when building only the arch-dependent binary packages. I had a little conversation on IRC about this: | <ifvoid> does anyone know why the buildds don't install | Build-Dep-Indep, while they do run "debian/rules build" | <elmo> because they're running dpkg-buildpackage -B ? | <elmo> why would they install build-dep-indep when they're only | building the arch dep packages ? | <elmo> IIRC, someone changed policy to reflect non-reality, but that's | hardly the buildds fault. they've never installed b-d-i | <BenC> ifvoid: if indep stuff is built during "build" target, you need | to move those deps to arch-dep, or fix your build | <ifvoid> no | <ifvoid> policy says: | <ifvoid> The Build-Depends-Indep and Build-Conflicts-Indep fields must | be satisfied when any of the following targets is invoked: build, | clean, build-indep, binary and binary-indep. | <ifvoid> note that that includes build | <elmo> policy is broken | <BenC> way broken | <ifvoid> ok | <BenC> that's just stupid | <BenC> that pretty much says that indep needs to always be satisfied, | which makes indep useless -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux kalypso 2.4.20 #1 Wed Dec 11 21:12:58 CET 2002 i686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- no debconf information
