Re: Summary? Re: source dependencies - and recomndations
On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Steve Greenland wrote:
> Source-Depends: x,y,z
> Source-Depends-<arch>: x,y,z,t
>
> If there exists a "Source-Depends-<arch>" that matches the current build
[snip]
> Alternative solution:
>
> Something like
>
> Source-Depends: x, y, z, (<arch>; t)
Why bother with indicating the architecture in the field name?
I think this could simply be done by using virtual packages, ie if a java
compiler is needed, we'll have the line:
Source-Depends: java-bytecode-compiler
So it can be either Sun's JDK or guavac on i386, while non-i386 arch. will
have no choice than guavac.
Also those packages will very often correspond to a given funcitonality,
so most of the necessary virtual packages names already exists (as
"java-bytecode-compiler" already exists for example)
V.
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