implicit build dependency when cross compiling in dose3

[Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de>]

Hi,

dose3 upstream will make one more release before the freeze so that the result
ends up in Jessie.

Currently, when trying to satisfy cross build-dependencies, dose3 adds an
implicit dependency on crossbuild-essential-${host}:${build} in addition to a
build dependency on build-essential:${build}.

It seems that currently, crossbuild-essential-${host} packages only exist in
Ubuntu. Thus, it is currently not possible to resolve cross build-dependencies
with dose3 on Debian without adding a fake crossbuild-essential-${host} package
to the input binary Packages file.

What is the status of crossbuild-essential-${host} binary packages in Debian?

Should dose3 in Jessie add the implicit dependency on
crossbuild-essential-${host}?

Should dose3 in Jessie+1 add the dependency?

cheers, josch