Hi! On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 15:47:56 +0100, Ximin Luo wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Severity: normal
> I was recently told to split part of my Build-Depends field into a > separate Build-Depends-Indep field. Not one to follow orders without > question, I went and did some research, and found this snippet in > the policy[1]: > > "There is no Build-Depends-Arch; this role is essentially met with > Build-Depends. Anyone building the build-indep and binary-indep > targets is assumed to be building the whole package, and therefore > installation of all build dependencies is required. dpkg has supported Build-Depends-Arch and Build-Conflicts-Arch since 1.16.4 (complete support with 1.17.0). Although they should not be used yet, as long as other resolvers are not aware of these. Thanks, Guillem -- 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/20131026121423.gb15...@gaara.hadrons.org
