Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <gaia@iki.fi> wrote: > My proposal is, in short, the following: Define six new fields for > debian/control and specify their meaning. The six new fields are used > only in .dsc files and in the first paragraph of debian/control. They > are: > * Depends > Specifies the packages that must be installed when one of > the targets build, binary, binary-arch and binary-indep > of debian/rules is invoked. > * Arch-Depends > This is a variant of Depends which is followed only when > the architecture-dependent parts of the package are being > built. > * Indep-Depends > This is a variant of Depends which is followed only when > the architecture-independent parts of the package are being > built. > * Conflicts, Arch-Conflicts, Indep-Conflicts > These are analoguous to the dependency fields above. > > Most packages will use only Depends and Conflicts. The other fields > are useful with multi-binary packages. > > It will not be necessary to specify "Essential: yes" or "Priority: > required" packages, nor is it necessary to specify a minimal standard > C and C++ compilation environment. The dpkg-dev package is also > assumed to be installed. Helper packages such as debhelper, if any, > *must* be specified. Seconded. -- I consume, therefore I am
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