On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 12:36:15PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > I object to making the packaging system more complex without a real gain. > > We should better document what "Build-Depends-Indep:" really mean: > That which autobuilders do not need to install to produce Architecture: any > packages via the clean, build and binary-arch targets only.
Without having functional, separate rules for building Arch: all packages, there is limited gain in doing this. > We could well keep Build-Depends-Indep: for things which are only used > by the binary-indep target (which is how things really work today), > and deprecate the build-arch and build-indep targets, since they have > never been really useful. The external dependencies are more often used in the build rules, rather than the binary rules, I would think. Then again, maybe not. How about we have someone collect some statistics? Have we had any statistics provided back when this stuff initially entered the Policy manual? -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.