Andrew Suffield wrote: > Isn't "useless makework for the maintainer" the point of > lintian/linda? :P :-) > The value is rather limited though... two cases I can think of, are > trying to build the arch-dep components (which should do nothing, > successfully) and adding an arch-dep component to the package later. Building arch-dep would still work of course, it would just load a lot of unnecessary build deps and then do nothing, successfully. This is not a case I am very interested in optimizing, since there is a nice optimisation -- check debian/control for arch-dep components before building.. If the package gets an arch-dep component later, I will probably be in a better position than I am in now to figure out what should go in the build-depends and what could split out into build-depend-indep. Since it's also statisitcally unlikely, I'd worry about it when it happens. -- see shy jo
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