Bug#727610: debian-policy: clearer discussion of why build-indep implies building the whole package

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 15:47:56 +0100, Ximin Luo wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Severity: normal

> I was recently told to split part of my Build-Depends field into a
> separate Build-Depends-Indep field. Not one to follow orders without
> question, I went and did some research, and found this snippet in
> the policy[1]:
> 
> "There is no Build-Depends-Arch; this role is essentially met with
> Build-Depends. Anyone building the build-indep and binary-indep
> targets is assumed to be building the whole package, and therefore
> installation of all build dependencies is required.

dpkg has supported Build-Depends-Arch and Build-Conflicts-Arch since
1.16.4 (complete support with 1.17.0). Although they should not be
used yet, as long as other resolvers are not aware of these.

Thanks,
Guillem