Re: Build-Depends-Indep, please review

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 19:25, أحÙ?د اÙ?Ù?Ø­Ù?Ù?دÙ? <aelmahmoudy@sabily.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 07:07:07PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>>> And as discussed before policy disagrees with reality in this.
>>
>> Would you please elaborate ?
>
> Goswin likely refers to this thread: Buildd & binary-indep
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/09/msg00590.html
> Message-id: <20100924204433.GA4714@apache.rbscorp.ru>
>
>
> Best regards
>
> David Kalnischkies

And in short:

Buildds install only Build-Depends but not Build-Depends-Indep but still
call the "build" target. In reality the "build" target must work with
only Build-Depends installed contrary to what policy says.

MfG
        Goswin