Bug#178809: rules for Build-Depends-Indep satisfaction make no sense

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

On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 12:20:49PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> > Great!  What do you mean by "split mode", though, and does this mean
> > that we must have something like "debian/rules -q build-arch"
> > returning a meaningful value?
> 
> No, it means that build-indep is built during the binary-indep rule(which
> build deps on).
> 
> binary: binary-arch binary-indep
> binary-arch: apt libapt-pkg-dev apt-utils
> binary-indep: apt-doc libapt-pkg-doc
> apt: build
> libapt-pkg-dev: build
> apt-utils: build
> apt-doc: build-doc
> libapt-pkg-doc: build-doc

But if you have a Build-Depends-Indep field containing packages which
are needed for the build-indep target, then the autobuilders will
fail, as they first run the "build" target and then the binary-arch
target.  So unless dpkg and the autobuilders are going to consider
changing to support the originally-intended setup, there is no point
maintaining this distinction in policy.  Of course, there is no
problem with individual packages doing this; it causes no harm.

   Julian

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