Bug#218893: Proposal: debian/rules.version file [Fix for the build-arch problem]
I object to making the packaging system more complex without a real gain.
We should better document what "Build-Depends-Indep:" really mean:
That which autobuilders do not need to install to produce Architecture: any
packages via the clean, build and binary-arch targets only.
We could well keep Build-Depends-Indep: for things which are only used
by the binary-indep target (which is how things really work today),
and deprecate the build-arch and build-indep targets, since they have
never been really useful.
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