Bug#968226: Build-Depends-If-Available

2020-08-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Wouter Verhelst writes: > -policy: this is a question that has come up before > (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/12/msg00470.html is another > example that springs to mind, but I'm pretty sure there are more), so I > think we should document in Policy that a) buildd only looks at the

Bug#968226: Build-Depends-If-Available

2020-08-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Package: debian-policy On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 06:28:50PM +0100, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > I understand what you're saying, and indeed trying to encode > "Build-Depends-If-Available: foo" as "Build-Depends: foo | something" > is a bad idea from the get-go. After all, foo can have three states