I should probably shut up about this, but something has always bugged me (which means I'm probably doing it wrong).
Take for example /usr/share/doc/debhelper/examples/rules.multi, The targets are like so: binary-indep: build install binary-arch: build install Both `binary-indep` and `binary-arch` depend on the build target. Why would you want to do a build (which will have arch-specific components) for `binary-indep` ? In my rules file for the gri package: http://cvs.sf.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gri/gri/debian/rules?rev=1.5 the `binary-indep` does not depend on the `build` target (I use other targets to build the docs). The Build-Depends-Indep line then does not have any entries to make the build target. This has the advantage that building an arch-specific binary package does not waste CPU cycles building docs in the `build` target. Perhaps I'm doing it wrong, but it seems to work well enough. Peter
