Re: debian/control - Build-Depends vs. Build-Depends-Indep for newbies (+solution)

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Joachim Reichel <joachim.reichel@gmx.de> wrote:

>> Now here's the part that I forgot: debian/rules usually has a binary-arch and
>> binary-indep target.  Run "debian/rules clean binary-arch" and now you can
>> check whether the package will also run fine on a Debian autobuilder.
>
> The problem is that sbuild invokes the build target (which also depends
> on build-indep), but does not pay attention to Build-Depends-Indep.

There is a thread about this mess currently running on debian-devel. It
was started with the following message:

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/06/msg00923.html

-- 
Florent