[debhelper-devel] Bug#836699: Add dh --with-indep, for sequence addons pulled in through Build-Depends-Indep

[Niels Thykier]

On Sun, 4 Sep 2016 15:57:55 -0400 (EDT) Anders Kaseorg <andersk at mit.edu>
wrote:
> Package: debhelper
> Version: 9.20160814
> 
> It would be useful to have dh $@ --with-indep ADDON, an analogue of dh $@ 
> --with ADDON that only loads the addon when Architecture: all packages are 
> being built.
> 
> [...]
> 
> Anders
> 
> 

Hi,

I learned earlier today that it is possible to implement this via make.
The following snippet is from file's d/rules file:

"""
> %:
> 	dh $@ $(DH_ADDONS)
> binary-arch build-arch install-arch: DH_ADDONS=--with autoreconf
> binary-indep build-indep install-indep: DH_ADDONS=--with python2,python3
> binary build install: DH_ADDONS=--with autoreconf,python2,python3
"""

(If it is any help, remember that dh accepts multiple --with parameters,
which might be useful in simplifying your case)



I admit it is not as simple or trivial as the thing you requested, but
it is available now (and backportable).

Thanks,
~Niels