On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 09:17:42PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am packaging source which builds two binary packages; however, each > > package has different build dependancies. In fact, the packages' build > > dependancies conflict. > > > > I don't think the dpkg tools have the facility to build one binary but > > not the other. Nor do I think one can specify different build > > dependancies for two binaries built from the same source. > > > > Could someone please refer me to any discussion of these issues, and > > any solutions? > > I would create two different source packages. Build-dependencies are > certainly not supposed to be installed or removed by debian/rules in > the middle of the build.
Yeah. Note that you don't have to chop up the upstream source to do this; in the name of pristine .orig.tar.gz files, you can just upload the full upstream tarball but only build part of it. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
