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Re: Proposal, a Build-Depends-Optional field



Quoting Johannes Schauer (2015-05-25 15:43:24)
> Hi,
> 
> Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2015-05-25 14:34:46)
>> Both above approaches are suitable only when in control of the 
>> dependent package as well.
> 
> why?

Ah, correction: Only maintainers of dependent package can add a virtual 
package (as Helmuth suggested), but anyone can create a metapackage (as 
Jakub suggested).


 - Jonas

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