Re: Q about Build-Depends vs Build-Depends-Indep

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

I'll use your interpretation, but there's no way I could have
decoded that meaning from the packaging manual.

Thanks,
Peter

Julian Gilbey wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 01:11:03PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > 
> > The packaging manual (section 8.7) says:
> > 
> >  Build-Depends, Build-Conflicts 
> >     The Build-Depends and Build-Conflicts fields apply to the
> >     targets build, binary, binary-arch and binary-indep.
> > 
> >  Build-Depends-Indep, Build-Conflicts-Indep 
> >     The Build-Depends-Indep and Build-Conflicts-Indep fields
> >     apply to the targets binary and binary-indep.
> 
> If you do "debian/rules binary-indep" or "debian/rules binary", you
> have to satisfy the Build-{Depends,Conflicts} and
> Build-{Depends,Conflicts}-Indep dependencies/conflicts.
> 
> If you do "debian/rules binary-arch" or "debian/rules build", you only
> have to satisfy those dependencies/conflicts listed in
> Build-{Depends,Conflicts}.
> 
> I think you were looking at it the wrong way round.  Is there any way
> to clarify this?
> 
>    Julian