Re: Autobuilding and the build-arch target, again

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 11:08:00PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> And I would strongly suggest you to consider Simon Richter's proposal,
> which sounds a lot cleaner to me: if you have build-depends-indep in
> your debian/control file, you must also implement build-arch and/or
> build-indep.
> 
> Additionally, that has the advantage that most packages probably already
> implement it that way.

There used to be the issue that the dpkg maintainers were strongly
opposed to that, because that break backward compatibility. 

Cheers,
Bill.