Build-Depends-Indep

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The Build-Depends-Indep field is used to define a list of dependencies required when building architecture independent packages.

In general this field is not useful because when initiating a build, it installs the Build-Depends packages already and it is very likely that this list includes all the packages required to build the architecture independent packages.

See also: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=374029

 
  • 1. Kept in Source Packages only.