Bug#191411: [proposal] build-depends-indep should not be satisfied during clean target

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net>]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 06:31:31PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > I therefore propose the following change to section 7.6, which is a
> > > partial rollback from #164035:
> > > 
> > >       `Build-Depends-Indep', `Build-Conflicts-Indep'   
> > >            The `Build-Depends-Indep' and `Build-Conflicts-Indep' fields must
> > >            be satisfied when any of the following targets is invoked:
> > > +          `build', `build-indep', `binary' and `binary-indep'.
> > > -          `build', `build-indep', `clean', `binary' and `binary-indep'.
> > 
> > Seconded.
> Note that this policy change make a difference for
> arch: all source packages. For them, it is currently equivalent
> to use 'Build-Depends-Indep' and 'Build-Depends'
> 
> With this change, it will no more be the case. Build-Depends will
> be safer since it cover clean (this trigger a lintian warning
> currently).
> 
> It can be worthwhile to state explicitly what happen for source
> arch:all packages in the policy.

He's right.  Lots of Arch: all packages (correctly) use
Build-Depends-Indep and not Build-Depends at all.  With this change to
policy, almost all of them will immediately cease being policy
compliant.  (Most have debhelper as a dependency in the clean target.)
So what should this policy be?  I understand the desire not to require
Build-Depends-Indep to clean, but this isn't quite the way to do it
properly.

Any ideas?

   Julian

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