Re: Q about Build-Depends vs Build-Depends-Indep

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

[Please followup to -policy and not -devel]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 01:36:36PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> 
> I'll use your interpretation, but there's no way I could have
> decoded that meaning from the packaging manual.
> 
> Thanks,
> Peter
> 
> Julian Gilbey wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 01:11:03PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > > 
> > > The packaging manual (section 8.7) says:
> > > 
> > >  Build-Depends, Build-Conflicts 
> > >     The Build-Depends and Build-Conflicts fields apply to the
> > >     targets build, binary, binary-arch and binary-indep.
> > > 
> > >  Build-Depends-Indep, Build-Conflicts-Indep 
> > >     The Build-Depends-Indep and Build-Conflicts-Indep fields
> > >     apply to the targets binary and binary-indep.

So how about modifying the wording to say:

  Build-Depends, Build-Conflicts 
     The Build-Depends and Build-Conflicts fields describe binary
     dependencies and conflicts which must be satisfied when making
     the build, binary, binary-arch and binary-indep targets.
 
  Build-Depends-Indep, Build-Conflicts-Indep 
     The Build-Depends-Indep and Build-Conflicts-Indep fields describe
     binary dependencies and conflicts which must be satisfied when
     making the binary and binary-indep targets.

   Julian

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