Re: Should I override lintian (build-depends-without-arch-dep)?

[James Troup <james@nocrew.org>]

Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 04:31:49PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > Lintian says:
> > E: tkman source: build-depends-without-arch-dep
> 
> > It is true that no architecture-dependent packages are built. However 
> >     dh_testdir 
> > as part of the build target. Therefore I believe I should override 
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > lintain.
> 
> no, use Build-Depends-Indep and read the policy again

Err, no, don't.  Perhaps _you_ should read policy again.

|      `Build-Depends', `Build-Conflicts'
|           The `Build-Depends' and `Build-Conflicts' fields must be
|           satisfied when any of the following targets is invoked: `build',
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|           `binary', `binary-arch' and `binary-indep'.
| 
|      `Build-Depends-Indep', `Build-Conflicts-Indep'
|           The `Build-Depends-Indep' and `Build-Conflicts-Indep' fields must
|           be satisfied when any of the following targets is invoked:
|           `binary' and `binary-indep'.

-- 
James