[03:33] <caraka> bit of a noob question:  In Build-Depends, is it possible to get away with something like Build-Depends: foo | true,   so that foo is only required as a build dependency if that release actually has the foo package?
[03:34] <caraka> I want to take advantage of some new stuff in Artful that isn't available in Zesty or earlier
[05:41] <caraka> To answer my own question:   Build-Depends: libqt5charts5-dev | wget, does just fine where qtcharts exists in >= Buster/Sid/Artful but not in <= Stretch/Zesty
[06:45] <cjwatson> caraka: I normally use base-files on the right-hand side, but yes, that sort of trick works
[06:46] <cjwatson> (This sort of thing is inevitably typo-sensitive on the left-hand side, though)
[07:23] <caraka> interesting cjwatson, thanks. I just picked something random that I knew had low overhead. Any base file makes more sense though.  :D