Bug#552200: lintian: [checks/fields] build-depends-without-arch-dep pedantic when all the packages are arch-independant.
Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.17
Severity: normal
Greeting, Lintian maintainers!
I just got an informational ’build-depends-without-arch-dep’ tag and wonder
what the problem is.
If a source package only builds architecture-independant packages, is there a
use case for not wanting to install the dependancies necessary to build the
binary packages? Said differently, are there tools that take a source package
that only produces Arch: all packages, unpacks it, and only plays with the
clean, build-arch and binary-arch targets of debian/rules? If not, the
Build-Depends/Build-Depends-Indep dichotomy is not necessary in that case, and
this tag is pedantic at best.
In case we do not agree, I would be interested to know if it is acceptable to
override this tag.
Have a nice week-end, and thanks a lot for your efforts,
--
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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