On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 08:29:43PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > If a package is strictly arch-indep, then nobody is likely to benefit > from the build-depends being split into the pieces needed to run > binary-indep, and the peices needed to run clean. It's just useless > makework for the maintainer.
Exactly. Perhaps that passage should be written to reflect how the tools work? A problem with the original 'clean' modification was that people started looking at the headers, rather than looking at what was required. This might still happen (although I don't see how people could still read it in a way to be both policy compliant and unbuildable on autobuilders), and that might still result in people misunderstanding what build-depends are for. Something like... `` 'Build-Depends' should contain all packages that are required for a 'dpkg-buildpackage -B' run to complete successfully. Any packages that are not requird for a 'dpkg-buildpackage -B' run, but that are required for a plain 'dpkg-buildpackage' run should be put in 'Build-Depends-Indep'. For reference, 'dpkg-buildpackage -B' calls the 'foo', 'bar', and 'baz' targets of the 'debian/rules' file, whereas 'dpkg-buildpackage' calls the 'foobar', 'quux', and 'quuux' targets.'' (dpkg-buildpackage's manpage doesn't tell which targets exactly are called. If people accept the above, I'll make sure I find out, but I was too lazy to read the code right now) -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org "Stop breathing down my neck." "My breathing is merely a simulation." "So is my neck, stop it anyway!" -- Voyager's EMH versus the Prometheus' EMH, stardate 51462.
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