Hi josch, On Tue, 06 Aug 2019 20:11:07 +0200, Johannes Schauer <jo...@debian.org> wrote: > Quoting Stephen Kitt (2019-08-06 18:43:24) > > Could we avoid (some of) this by treating “source” as a new architecture? > > There would be a mostly do-nothing buildd which would repack the source > > package as a binary package in /usr/src/... > > The large number of binary packages needed with this method could of course > be reduced if only selected source packages get built that way. But such a > method already exists in the form of foo-source binary packages. > > Changing the build dependency syntax instead would have the advantage, that > we do not need more binary or source packages at all because all the > necessary logic would come from the resolvers themselves.
Thanks for the detailed explanations, changing the build dependency syntax does indeed seem like a better approach. Regards, Stephen
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