Re: Requesting advice on build dependencies
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 11:33:20PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> was heard to say:
> On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 09:01:47PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>
> > Now, as I see it, I have several options here:
> >
> > (a) Build-Depend unconditionally on both ggi and sdl, but add architecture
> > tags specifying which archs the dependency applies to. This is ugly, since
> > I have to constantly keep track of which architectures ggi and sdl are
> > working on this week.
>
> This is annoying, but it is what several other packages must do. If all else
> fails, do this. You can minimize the maintenance headache by only excluding
> architectures where GGI and/or SDL are known not to exist. If the situation
> changes, and someone cares enough about the package, a bug will be filed to
> notify you to update the dependencies.
Ok, I guess I'll do that. A new version is in Incoming with [! foo-arch]
tags on the build-dependencies. (yuck!) I agree, conditional build-deps
would be nice.
Daniel
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