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Re: suggestion: build-blockers field in control file



peter green wrote:

[...]
> This leads to the building of
> uninstallable packages which in turn leads to problems with testing
> transition of packages.
>
> Currently there are two workarounds for this situation
>
> 1: manually alter the package's architecture list to limit building to those
> architectures where runtime dependencis
> 2: add an artificial build-dependency

For completeness, it's probably worth mentioning a third option:

 3: use the architecture list to document fundamental portability hurdles
    and packages-arch-specific[*] to document accidental ones

[*] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html.en#packages-arch-specific


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