On 20030903T212419+0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > When build-depends were first created, people started adding > build-depends for arch-independent packages in multi-binary source > packages, resulting in waste of resources by autobuilders installing > packages they won't need to build the package. So, build-depends-indep > were created, so that those build-dependencies that aren't needed to > autobuild a arch-dependent package can be put in there, and autobuilders > don't waste time and diskspace installing packages they don't need.
To set the history straight...
When I proposed the build-time dependency system, I had a complete set
of Build-{Depends,Conflicts}{-Arch,Indep,} (with a different naming
convention, but who cares:). The consensus from the discussion was that
Build-{Depends,Conflicts}-Arch are unnecessary and so they were not
adopted. However, Build-Depends-Indep has been in Policy as long as
Build-Depends.
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Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Debian developer http://www.iki.fi/gaia/
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