Bug#374029: Build-Depends{,-Indep} as defined is not useful and not followed
Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> writes:
> The problematic hook is the following:
> + 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.
Ah! Yes. I understand your point now. However, this does work and is
tested, as Jonathan pointed out.
I can pull out just this part of the language if we need to (it's only a
rephrasing of language that's already there, not new language, but I do
pull out the footnote saying that it doesn't work properly), but I'd
rather not. I think it's already working.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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