[ Let's move this discussion to -policy, where it belongs. For people reading -policy, the context is in bug #197100. ]
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 16:45, James Troup wrote: > I don't think it's a bug in the buildds. And you do think it is a bug in laptop-net? (really cdbs) I don't. > If Build-Depends-Indep were > installed to satisfy 'build' their entire raison d'etre would be > voided. The buildds, as I see it, shouldn't even invoke debian/rules build at all. They should just invoke debian/rules binary-arch and leave it at that. Alternatively, they could try invoking debian/rules build-arch, and if that fails just ignore it. Yet another alternative is to make build-arch mandatory. Which of those (if any, there are probably more solutions) the buildds should do I think we will have to discuss further. This all goes for dpkg-buildpackage too, of course. > That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's orthogonal to > this bug. I don't think it's orthogonal at all. You said: "Build-Depends-Indep are not installed during the 'build' target; ..." which just plain contradicts policy ยง7.6.
