* Roger Leigh , 2010-11-21, 21:38:
Currently, Build-Depends-Indep isn't useful,
I've heard this many times, but this is not true. B-D-I is useful and
many packages use it successfully.
I'd like to propose that build-arch and build-indep be changed in
Policy from "may be provided" to "must b
Bill Allombert writes:
> The problem is the expectation of the developers that wrote the Depends
> line: they expected that the non-free or-group would not replace the
> free group unless the user installed the non-free alternative before.
As a developer, that's not what I expect. I expect the
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 09:38:31PM +, Roger Leigh wrote:
> There's some history to this in #374029. Most of the information
> about sbuild/buildds in there is outdated and incorrect. The only
> sticking point to using Build-Depends-Indep and autobuilding
> arch-all packages is the lack of sup
Please find attached the patch from Nicolas François updated to the new
DocBook source format.
Index: debian/changelog
===
--- debian/changelog (révision 7379)
+++ debian/changelog (révision 7380)
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
* Update outda
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.9.1.0
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Hi,
As a goal for wheezy, I'd like the Build-Depends and
Build-Depends-Indep fields to be fully functional and usable for
autobuilding. Currently, Build-Depends-Indep isn't useful, and
only Build-Depends is used in practice on
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:26:37PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> > There are a variety of licenses in non-free and a user (or their lawyers)
> > can be
> > fine with some of them but not all. The choice of non-free packages
> > installed
> > should remain with the users.
> > Now apt is just
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