Joey Hess wrote: > If build-depends-indep need not be satified any time the clean target is > run, then I can imagine that some tool might be written to rely on that, > and only install the build-depends before building a package that is > only arch: all. Rather, that some tool remove the build-depends-indep before cleaning such a package, and then expect the clean target to still work. > Therefore it seemed to me that I should change the dozen or so arch all > pacages I maintain to put debhelper in the build-depends (and generally > everything in the build-depends for most of them since the split is > useless unless the package builds both arch all and any and has a > properly structured debian/rules -- only one of my packages bothers with > that). When I did, linda complained: > > W: liblingua-en-words2nums-perl; Package has Build-Depends, but builds > no arch-dependant packages. > > Is linda behind the times, or am I trying to follow policy too closely? > Is this build-depends-indep split really of any value, or is it just > complicating our lives for no good reason? -- see shy jo
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