Re: [buildd-tools-devel] re buildd's resolver and package's build deps
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> writes:
> I'm still not sure how 'Build-Depends: foo [i386] | bar [amd64]'
> would make sense (as opposed to making it an 'and').
They're equivalent, so I would view it as intended for human readers, not
for computers.
In other words, I see a Build-Depends of:
foo [i386] | bar [amd64]
as saying "there's some part of the build that uses foo on i386, bar on
amd64, and handles it internal to the package on other architectures,"
whereas a Build-Depends of:
foo [i386], bar [amd64]
I'd read as "there's a feature enabled on i386 that requires foo, and a
separate feature enabled on amd64 that requires bar."
In the end, it both reduces to the same thing, but it helps human readers
figure out how the dependencies are related.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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