Bug#218893: Proposal: debian/rules.version file [Fix for the build-arch problem]
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?
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