Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes: > here is a proposed patch that uses a slimed version of the paragraphs > proposed by Russ (quoted below) and keeps the original examples. It > documents the field as new section, number 7.8, the last one of its > chapter, because it introduces a new type of relationship, from binary > package to source package. This said, I agree with Russ that a > binary/binary relationship may be preferrable. For instance, it might > avoid rare corner cases when depending on a source package that was > binNMUed. This patch also lists Built-Using together with binary > relationship packages in the paragraph explaining how architecture > restrictions in source control files are used to produce binary control > files.
The dpkg-query changes I think make it safe to use source dependencies. This patch looks good to me; seconded. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pqf5j37n....@windlord.stanford.edu
