Re: Incomplete build depends on binary-all packages

[Brian May <bam@debian.org>]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 07:55:54PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Can you point me to the exact section of policy where it's specified 
> that the source package of an arch: all package must include a complete 
> list of build dependencies in either of the Build-Depends-Indep: or 
> Build-Depends: fields of the control file?  I'm looking at section 7.6 
> of Debian Policy version 3.5.6.0 (the latest release, AFAIK), which 
> reads:

I seem to remember that a *missing* build-depends did not break policy,
but an including an incorrect/incomplete build-depends did (typically
because it would prevent autobuilders from building the package for
other architectures).

However, I can't seem to find it anymore...