Bug#374029: Build-Depends{,-Indep} as defined is not useful and not followed

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 08:31:50AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > The following patch implements the decision of the Debian Technical
> > Committee in #629385 to make build-arch and build-indep mandatory.
> > Please review.  Note that I'm not looking for conventional seconds since
> > the Technical Committee has already made a judgement; rather, I'm
> > looking for wording review and for confirmation that I've implemented
> > the Technical Committee decision properly.
> 
> This patch has now been merged for the next release.  Thanks, everyone,
> for the review!

I like to defer it until wheezy is released. Indeed, the relevant dpkg code
has not seen much real life testing and the freeze is not a proper time to
experiment which the buildd and build systems in general.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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