[maemo-developers] Optional build dependencies (e.g. for fremantle)

[From: Till Harbaum / Lists]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch 18 März 2009 schrieb Guillem Jover:
> There's no optization of any kind going on here. You request a
> dependency to be fullfilled and maemo-version-dev does that, so
> there's no point in also installing tablet-browser-interface-dev.
I meant this. It seems to check if any of the options is already fulfilled before
just trying to fulfill them one after the other.

> Yes, do *not* do that, it's a major hack, and it might stop working at
> any time, you cannot control if some of the other Build-Depends will at
> any point start pulling devscripts (or any phony package you want to
> add there).
Yep i know. The symptom will be that the autobuilds start missing features.
I should notice that in time. This is imho what the -devel repos are for: See 
if everything works.

> The clean and proper way to do this is to branch the packaging, in
> Debian, packages always target the latest (sid), and often people do
> backports for old releases (oldstable, stable, etc).
No way. I won't branch for fremantle. Either it works with the same
package or i won't support fremantle.

Till