Bug#178809: rules for Build-Depends-Indep satisfaction make no sense
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > 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.
No, they won't. The apt build and binary-arch targets don't need any packages
that are listed in Build-Depends-Indep(as I have designed).
Please think again, you are reading what I pasted wrong.
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