On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 02:08:57PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Policy says Build-Depends-Indep must be installed for the build > target, which sbuild calls. But sbuild does not install > Build-Depends-Indep. Same goes for dpkg-checkbuildep -B, it does not > test for Build-Depends-Indep while build will always be called. > > At a minimum policy has to reflect that anything already needed for > the build target is in Build-Depends while only the actual *-indep > targets and binary require Build-Depends-Indep.
Right. I didn't look at it that way. > > However, since all this was invented and written precisely to accomodate > > sbuild, it would be madness to suddenly change everything because it > > seems more aesthetic (or so), and then require that sbuil jump through > > hoops to accomodate the aestethic feelings of one particular developer. > > That would be the world upside-down. > > The idea is to improve sbuild, dpkg-buildpackage, debuild, pbuilder, > cowbuilder, lvmbuilder, .... with a simple change. I would hardly call > adding an (two) extra build relationship field jumping through > hoops. For clarity, with the above I didn't mean that this change involves "jumping through hoops" -- only that a hypothetical change which is done only to accomodate someone's aestethical feelings would be. I didn't really oppose this particular change (though I didn't see a good reason to do it -- now I do :-) Sorry I didn't make that any clearer. -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of Nine, "Ashes to Ashes", stardate 53679.4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
