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

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Bill Allombert wrote:

> +                 This split allows binary-only builds to not install the
> +                 dependencies required for the <tt>build-indep</tt>
> +                 target and skip any resource-intensive build tasks that
> +                 are only required when building architecture-independent
> +                 binary packages.
>
> If you follow this recommendation, your package will potentially FTBFS due to
> missing build-dependency on the buildd, unless it has been fixed.
> I do not think this has seen real life testing at this stage.

This has seen real-life testing.  For example, xz-utils would fail to
build on autobuilders if that code did not work.  The curious can find
other examples by searching for build-time dependencies on dpkg-dev
(>= 1.16.2).

Hope that helps,
Jonathan