GenericPackageDescription and 'build-depends' field

Daniel Trstenjak daniel.trstenjak at gmail.com
Mon Apr 21 11:47:28 UTC 2014


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 03:10:32AM +0200, Mikhail Glushenkov wrote:
> IIRC it's what condtrees get simplified to after finalizePackageDescription.

What's the reason for this?

Because it makes it a bit awkward to handle the different sections
(library/executable/testsuite/benchmark) respectively their BuildInfos
in a generic way.


Greetings,
Daniel


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