Re: Proposal of two new control fields: Build-Recommends and Build-Suggests [long reading]
Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes:
> What you actually want here is to use architecture wildcards, as in:
>
> libasound2-dev [linux-any]
>
> this is documented in dpkg-architecture(1), and has been supported since
> dpkg 1.13.13. debhelper also supports this since 5.0.36. Currently the
> only missing piece I'm aware of is sbuild, but next upload to Debian
> should support it (#501230). It'd be really nice to get that patch on
> the buildds so that we could start using this in the archive.
If someone could provide a patch to Policy, that would be good too.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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