David R. Morrison wrote:
Daniel Macks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Debian Packaging Manual 5.7 "User-defined fields" (though as I read it is self-contradictory), suggests we could maybe pass the BDO flag in the control file? If so, that would certainly be a cleaner solution than:
For each package, at build time I'll touch one of the following two files (after creating the appropriate directory): /sw/share/BuildDependsOnly/true/%n or /sw/share/BuildDependsOnly/false/%n
Ah, thanks for the pointer. I had tried passing this, but was getting warnings from dpkg about user defined fields. I shall investigate this further, now that I have some docs to work with.
This seems to be about the debian package build system, which we do not use. I don't think many users will notice the dpkg warnings about the user defined control field if you just stuff "BuildDependsOnly" into the control file. Having just looked at lib/parse.c from the dpkg sources, it would not be too difficult to turn the warning off with a little dpkg patch. Seems we've had this discussion on irc, but I'll get off the fence here and state "I'd prefer to see a solution in the control file or the deb. We probably should not install things the user would view as unnecessary".
Peter
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