Re: Build-Recommends
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 03:21:54PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> [People from debian-ocaml-mail, please keep -mentors CC'ed.]
>
> * John Skaller [Sun, 12 Jun 2005 16:27:21 +1000]:
> > I could use a 'build-recommends' dependency,
> > but I understand 'recommends'
> > is only available for the binary package, not the source.
> > Is this correct?
>
> > The situation: the packaging machine requires 'ocaml'
> > to make binaries from my source package, but if
> > 'ocaml-native-compilers' is also installed it will
> > do so faster, however that package is not available
> > on all architectures.
>
> > This isn't an essential feature, but here is a case,
> > possibly isolated, where it could be useful.
>
> Normally, one resolves this and similar situations like this:
>
> Build-Depends: ocaml-native-compilers [!m68k !mips !mipsel !s390],
> ocaml [m68k mips mipsel s390]
Notice that this kind of things is mentioned in the ocaml-packaging-policy,
did you read it ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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