Hi, Quoting Gianfranco Costamagna (2015-05-25 09:22:57) > I don't know how much is feasible and useful the field. > > Problem: I have a package that might depend on a libfoo-dev > library. > > "might" because it tries to detect it at configure time, > and if the libfoo is found some features are enabled, otherwise > the features are disabled. > > Since the libfoo isn't build on every architecture, I would like to > have some field in my control file, like > "try to install it, if not found just discard it", instead of keeping > track of every architecture built or not at each upload and enable when a new > architecture is successfully built. This thread was also asking for a method to overcome the problem of keeping an architecture list up to date: http://lists.debian.org/20141211180858.GS2361@bivouac.eciton.net One solution was proposed by Helmut: http://lists.debian.org/20141217084500.GA16582@alf.mars In your case this would mean that the source package building libfoo-dev would modify the binary package libfoo-dev to Provides: optional-libfoo-dev and additionally build a binary package called no-libfoo-dev on all architectures where libfoo-dev is *not* built which also Provides: optional-libfoo-dev. Lastly, let your source package build depend on optional-libfoo-dev. This solution might have a slight advantage over the one one proposed by Jakub by explicitly listing the package no-libfoo-dev in the Build-Environment field in the .buildinfo file on architectures where your package is built without libfoo-dev instead of just leaving it out. cheers, josch
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