Re: Bill Allombert in <20050919085445.GE21331@seventeen> > > > - There is no Build-Depends-Arch; the autobuilders will > > > - only need the Build-Depends if they know how to build > > > - only build-arch and binary-arch. Anyone building the > > > + Build-Depends is essentially "Build-Depends-Arch"; > > > + the autobuilders will only need the Build-Depends since they > > > + only use build-arch and binary-arch. Anyone building the > > > build-indep/binary-indep targets is basically assumed to > > > be building the whole package and so installs all build > > > dependencies. > > > > That substitutes one confusion for another (since it no longer > > disclaims the existence of Build-Depends-Arch). I'd suggest this: > > > > There is no Build-Depends-Arch; this role is essentially met with > > Build-Depends, since the autobuilders only use build-arch and > > binary-arch. Anyone building the [...] > > But it is not the case either, autobuilders use dpkg-buildpackage -B, > which call 'build' and 'binary-arch', and do not use 'build-arch' > because it does not know if it is available. This is a bug I try to fix > for several years, and I have a faint hope to achieve this in 2006. Sorry for the late follow-up. Here's my suggestion which should be the best of the above three paragraphs: There is no Build-Depends-Arch; this role is essentially met with Build-Depends. Anyone building the build-indep and binary-indep targets is basically assumed to be building the whole package anyway and so installs all build dependencies. The autobuilders use 'dpkg-buildpackage -B', which calls 'build' (not 'build-arch', since it does not yet know how to check for its existence) and 'binary-arch'. It would be nice if that could be added now even if dpkg-buildpackage is to be fixed at some point, because that paragraph causes confusion for every new maintainer. (And I'm sure even most DDs don't know that dpkg-buildpackage -B doesn't use build-arch.) Christoph -- cb@df7cb.de | http://www.df7cb.de/
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