Bug#534684: lintian: build-depends-without-arch-dep gives false positives when debian/rules includes /usr/share/R/debian/r-cran.mk
"Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
> No. If the package is required to run the clean target (which I assume
> at least cdbs and debhelper are in this case), then it must be listed
> in Build-Depends, even if the package only produces arch-indep
> packages - see Policy 7.7.
And in general anything that involves an unconditional makefile include
is required to run the clean target, since it's required to load
debian/rules as a makefile at all.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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