Re: request: check installability of Depends before building

[Julien Cristau]

On 12/03/2017 07:38 PM, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
> 
> 
> على السبت  2 كانون الأول 2017 ‫06:14، كتب Julien Cristau:
>> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 00:40:12 -0400, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> ~~~https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-med/sga.git/tree/debian/control
>>> Priority: optional
>>> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10),
>>>                dh-autoreconf,
>>>                libsparsehash-dev,
>>>                zlib1g-dev | libz-dev,
>>>                libbamtools-dev,
>>>                gawk,
>>>                help2man,
>>> # Run-Time Depends
>>> # (to prevent building on architectures where it won't be installable)
>>>            samtools,
>>>            python,
>>>            python-ruffus,
>>>                python-pysam
>>> Standards-Version: 4.1.0
>>> ~~~
>>>
>>> ...which is an abuse of the build-depends field since those at the
>>> bottom are not actually needed for building the package.
>>>
>> I think this is actually a reasonable use of build-depends.
> 
> How? They are packages not needed during the build process. Do you think
> this needs a special build profile?
> 
No, I don't?  What problem are you actually trying to solve?

Cheers,
Julien