Hi Petter, On Thu, May 09, 2024 at 11:07:20AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > The reason it have these build dependencies, is to make sure the package > only build on architectures where it will actually work, to avoid > earning a release critical bug of providing binaries that do not work. > > I am thus very reluctant to drop build dependencies also needed at > runtime.
Your reasoning on this is sound to me. Would you mind adding comments to debian/control documenting this non-obvious aspect such that the next time someone looks for technically unused dependencies they see why they're there? >From my pov, please close this bug when documenting their need. Helmut
