Re: Build-Depends-Indep

[Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <gaia@iki.fi>]

On 20010114T135051-0500, Bob Hilliard wrote:
>      If a source package produces _only_ binary_all packages, is it
> necessary to have a Build-Depends-Indep: field, or is it sufficient to
> have a Build-Depends field?

It is never necessary to have the Build-Depends-Indep field, although
it may be reasonable to have it in many cases (except for the problem
outlined in #72335).

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