Andrew Suffield wrote: > Not quite; it should be modified to explicitly exclude > debhelper. There are very few packages which are actually needed at > clean time - the warning is correct for most things. That does not agree with what Wouter said. Wouter Verhelst wrote: > When build-depends were first created, people started adding > build-depends for arch-independent packages in multi-binary source > packages, resulting in waste of resources by autobuilders installing > packages they won't need to build the package. > Build-depends should contain build-dependencies that are common to > arch-independent and arch-dependent packages, as well as > build-dependencies that are needed for arch-dependent packages only. If a package is strictly arch-indep, then nobody is likely to benefit from the build-depends being split into the pieces needed to run binary-indep, and the peices needed to run clean. It's just useless makework for the maintainer. -- see shy jo
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