On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 08:29:43PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > When build-depends were first created, people started adding > > build-depends for arch-independent packages in multi-binary source > > packages, resulting in waste of resources by autobuilders installing > > packages they won't need to build the package. > > > Build-depends should contain build-dependencies that are common to > > arch-independent and arch-dependent packages, as well as > > build-dependencies that are needed for arch-dependent packages only. > > If a package is strictly arch-indep, then nobody is likely to benefit > from the build-depends being split into the pieces needed to run > binary-indep, and the peices needed to run clean. It's just useless > makework for the maintainer. Isn't "useless makework for the maintainer" the point of lintian/linda? :P The value is rather limited though... two cases I can think of, are trying to build the arch-dep components (which should do nothing, successfully) and adding an arch-dep component to the package later. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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