Re: build, build-arch and build-indep targets in debian/rules

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:56:16PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> writes:
>> >> Also current practice does not follow policy. Policy says
>> >> Build-Depends-Indep is needed for the build target, in practice that
>> >> is not true or the buildds would fail.
>> >
>> > But that's a different issue, no?
>> 
>> It needs a policy change to sync the two again.
>
> Withouth giving to much thought to it:
>
> The build-target should probably continue to depend on both build-arch
> and build-indep (if they are used), so I guess Build-Depends-Indeps
> should be installed as well if the build target gets invoked?
>
> Would we really need a policy change if dpkg-buildpackage was modified
> to simply call build-arch instead of build? Which would mean the build
> target does not get invoked and Build-Depends-Indep do not need to be
> installed.

Right. That works within policy.

> Michael

MfG
        Goswin