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

Mattia Rizzolo mattia at debian.org
Tue Mar 24 17:27:32 GMT 2020


On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 06:36:55PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 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.

that's not true.  B-D-I simply means "these packages are needed to build
the arch-indep parts of this source package".  It doesn't have any
relevance with "source package builds _both_ arch-dep and arch-indep".

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