[Pkg-javascript-devel] Time to switch to "Build-Depends-Indep" ?

[Xavier]

Le 21/03/2020 à 18:36, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit :
> Quoting Xavier (2020-03-21 18:22:37)
>> currently we use Build-Depends to push all our dependencies. This 
>> makes Multi-Arch reports a lot of problems while most of our packages 
>> are scripts only.
>>
>> As other languages, I think we should use Build-Depends-Indep for all 
>> Javascript dependencies. Example:
>>
>>   Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12)
>>   Build-Depends-Indep: pkg-js-tools (>= 0.9.20~)
>>    , node-tap <!nocheck>
>>    , ...
>>
>> But perhaps am I wrong here ?
>> Experimented DD advises are welcome ;-)
> 
> (I think you mean _experienced_ in last sentence above ;-) )
> 
> As I understand it, B-D-Indep should be used _only_ when a source 
> package builds _both_ architecture-dependent and 
> architecture-independent binary packages, and is then used to indicate 
> which build-deoendencies can be skipped when only building the 
> arch-independent parts.
> 
> In other words, not "for all Javascript dependencies" (if I understand 
> it correctly).
> 
> 
>  - Jonas

OK, but we have many (not all) packages that have a "node-foo could be
marked Multi-Arch: foreign" even if they are installed in
/usr/share/nodejs and Perl packages don't have such "action needed" in
tracker.d.o

Looking at Perl practices, it seems that "architecture: all" packages
uses only Build-Depends-Indep except for debhelper-compat

So is this a way to improve multi-arch ?