Re: Build-Depends-Indep and packages with architecture all

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Joel Baker <fenton@debian.org> wrote:

>> What concern do porters have with architecture-all-only-packages?
>
> With most Arch: all packages, little to none. The concern is actually in
> *not* having stuff that is *only* needed for -indep targets (which will
> generally never be built by porting machines) in the Binary-Depends field,
> so that it doesn't get installed (since it won't be needed). 

Ah, thank you, that's clear.

Bye, Frank
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Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie