anatoly techtonik wrote: > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:02 AM, أحمد المحمودي <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I thought Build-Depends-Indep is for build-deps that are not needed by >> clean target. > > What is the meaning of name "Build-Depends-Indep" then? Dependencies > that are required to build package, but from which "clean" rule is > independent?
No. Build-Depends-Indep lists the Build Dependencies needed to build the architecture-INDEPendant packages. In short: your package must build the arch:any packages correctly when only the Build-Depends are installed. It must be able to build also the arch:all when the Build-Depends-Indep are also installed. This allows to have "minimal" Build-Depends, while "extending" them with B-D-Indep (usually documentation building tools) for the arch:all packages. All that is in Policy 7.7. Cheers, OdyX -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
