Source: maint-guide Version: 1.2.53 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer-Guide-Maintainers,
maint-guide currently says in section 4.1: "Source packages which have binary packages with Architecture: any are rebuilt by the autobuilder. Since this autobuilder procedure installs only the packages listed in the Build-Depends field before running debian/rules build (see Section 6.2, “Autobuilder”), the Build-Depends field needs to list practically all the required packages, and Build-Depends-Indep is rarely used." This seems to be outdated, per discussion on IRC #debian-bootstrap: <equinox> now i'm confused what exactly Build-Depends-Indep: does <equinox> "Since this autobuilder procedure installs only the packages listed in the Build-Depends field before running debian/rules build (see Section 6.2, “Autobuilder”), the Build-Depends field needs to list practically all the required packages, and Build-Depends-Indep is rarely used." <equinox> from https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dreq.en.html#control <equinox> ?!? <equinox> (before that: "Source packages which have binary packages with Architecture: any are rebuilt by the autobuilder.") <helmut> would you file a bug against that? it's outdated: <helmut> 1) these days autobuiders do build arch:all packages. the wisdom that they only build any is wrong <helmut> 2) consequently, autobuilders do instal b-d-i when they do an indep-only build Could the docs be updated for those last 2 lines? Cheers, -equi
