Le jeudi 15 septembre 2005 à 20:16 +0200, Aurelien Jarno a écrit : > type-handling is ugly and should be considered as deprecated. It will be > replaced in the future by a the support of build-dependencies like > [linux-any]. I hope the support will appear soon there (the patch to > support that is in the BTS). If support for it is in etch's dpkg, we will be able to use it *after the etch release*. The policy has always been to require only dpkg features from the previous stable release. > Please also don't switch your package to type handling, and wait for the > new dpkg, as it violates the new Debian Policy, which says that you > should not change the build-depencies at build-time. Of course, using type-handling for generating a control file in the clean target is a crazy idea. The sane way to use it is: Build-Depends: libasound2-dev | not+linux -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org `. `' joss@debian.org `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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