Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <did...@raboud.com> writes:
> anatoly techtonik wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Ø£ØÙ
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>> <aelmahmo...@sabily.org>
>> 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
And as discussed before policy disagrees with reality in this.
MfG
Goswin
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