On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Adam Heath wrote: > On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > I object to making the packaging system more complex without a real gain. > > Well, without adding complexity, I do agree to having a field that specifies > the calling procedure for building the package.
Exactly. Which means having several different calling procedures. What are the real benefits from having build-arch and build-indep? Are there really so many packages which would benefit from having them? (Remember "debug" in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS? It was removed because its low ratio benefit/cost).