On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 07:27:52PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > Not liked proposals: > > Build-Depends-Optional field - it would just be ignored by tools, > silently, and we'd find about it onyl when it is too late. > > Build-Recommends field - same as previous, but also the semantic > is different from Recommends (which ignores any unsat dep). > > Build-Depends: foo [any-available] - it's longer, more magical, > and would also be silently ignored
Build-Depends: foo <!not-available> was another suggestion, but maybe too magical. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
