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.
The alternative is to mandate that packages with a Build-Depends-Indep: field MUST implement build-arch and build-indep. > 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. Because they were not working ? Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here.