Re: Build-Depends-Indep and packages with architecture all

["Thomas Viehmann" <tv@beamnet.de>]

Hi.

Frank Küster (frank@kuesterei.ch) wrote:
>Either I don't understand your sentence, or I have a problem reading the
>policy. In
Or I was wrong. :)

>file:///usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ch-miscellaneous.html#s-deb
>ianrules
>
>I can find statements about the targets binary-arch and binary-indep and
>the respective build-targets. But there's nothing about
>Dependency-fields in the control file. Also in Chapter 7, "Declaring
>relationships between packages", I cannot find an explanation (probably
>because I didn't read thoroughly enough).

Basically I thought that the explanation of binary-arch and binary-indep combined
with the principle of minimal build-dependencies yields the answer. Especially the
footnote in paragraph 7.6 (on package relations) seems to shed light on this (and
shead doubt on the effectiveness of build-depends-indep, oh well).

Cheers

T.