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[Reinhard Tartler]

Fabian Greffrath <greffrath at leat.rub.de> writes:

> Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
>> I like the idea. Maybe we should raise a discussion about that on the
>> debian-devel, because I think that is something that could be made
>> official.
>
> Maybe we can introduce it ourselfs and then point to our packages during
> discussion to show what we mean.

We can do that in paralell as well.

> Additionally to XS-Build-Suggests, which would only point to packages
> that are *not* in Debian, we could also propose XS-Build-Recommends for
> packages like libasound2-dev or libavc1394-dev, which are not available
> for all archs or kernels. Build-Recommends would then mean that a
> package is a Build-Depends on a specific arch if it is available there
> but the build does not fail if it is not. This would be cleaner than
> these ugly [!hurd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64 !kfreebsd-i386] lines, not?
>
> I know this is mostly off-topic, but what do the DDs think?

Good idea, but it only makes sense if sbuild on the buildds respect that
field. This needs again discussion on the mailing list.


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