Bug#218893: Proposal: debian/rules.version file [Fix for the build-arch problem]
* Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> [031103 18:19]:
> What are the real benefits from having build-arch and build-indep?
> Are there really so many packages which would benefit from having them?
The real benefit is that it makes it possible to really use
Build-Indeps, that most multi-binary-packages need to build
arch-independent documentation only once. (Compiling XFree on
some small machine for example already hard enough a task, even
without the hour needed for installing all the build-dependencies
for the documentation...) Not to speak about easier bootstrapping
of new arches and such things...
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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