Thanks a lot for the explanation. 2011/10/10 Thibaut Paumard <mlotpot.n...@free.fr>: > Hi, > > Le 08/10/11 19:51, Дмитрий Матросов a écrit : > >> >> So, this means that there is no strict relationship between content of >> Build-Depends-* field and build-* target dependencies like: >> "'Build-Depends' field contains all dependencies for 'build-arch' target >> and nothing more", or "'Build-Depends-Indep' contains all dependencies >> for 'build-indep' target and nothing more". Am i understand you correctly? >> > > The idea is that architecture independent packages are not always built > (actually, I believe they are _never_ automatically built, since they > come with the source upload, and whatever binary package is uploaded > with the source package is not rebuilt!) > > So Build-Depends-Indep should list those dependencies which only need to > be installed to build the arch-indep packages, so that in the real-world > situation where only the arch packages are built, those dependencies are > not uselessly installed. > > On the other hand, there is no real-world use case to build _only_ > arch-indep packages, without the arch packages. So both build-arch and > build-indep can count on anything listed in Build-Depends. > > The theory (and I'm not sure of how it currently works in practice) is > that the autobuilders, most of the time, install only Build-Depends on > call only binary-arch. On the developer's machine however (or on a full > rebuild), both Build-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep are installed, and > both binary-arch and binary-indep are called. > > Regards, Thibaut. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e92a605.2010...@free.fr > >
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