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Re: Bug#216492: FTBFS (unstable/all) missing build-dep



On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 05:31:22PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Chris Cheney wrote:
> 
> > What needs to happen to get this into policy?
> 
> Nothing.  It is not possible to support this.  I attempted to in a dpkg upload
> recently.  It broke completely.  I had to back it out.

I don't understand your response, why would it not be possible to
deprecate build and require use of build-arch/build-indep? With a
possible transition of dpkg-buildpackage calling build-arch and falling
back to build if it fails it could even have a clean(?) transition...

Chris

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