multi-distro support

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

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hi all,

out of curiosity: what is the 2nd-best practice for packages on multiple
distributions?

imagine i have a package "foo".
upstream has a lot of build-dependencies, some of which are "optional".
(e.g. "bar" and "pizza")
debian happens to ship "bar", but pizza for whatever reasons, "pizza" is
not included (or more realistic: cannot be included, due to license
problems in the mozzarella code).

now in the "debian" distribution, i would like to have "Build-Depends:
foo" whereas on the "nevermind-nonfree" distro, i would like to have
"Build-Depends: foo, pizza"

afaik debian/control cannot handle such things directly (nor should it,
imho)

otoh, i think it would be nice to be able to handle such things in a
centralized repository (like pkg-multimedia), in order to keep duplicate
afforts at a minimum.

given that this group includes debian- and ubuntu-maintainers (and
probably other distros which i fail to enumerate), i guess this has been
discussed and solved somehow.

fgmasdr
IOhannes
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