Bug#585767: Dependencies on linux-gnu or not+linux-gnu do not match armel or powerpcspe correctly
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 08:35:14PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> * Aurelien Jarno | 2010-06-14 12:00:14 [+0200]:
>
> >> libudev-dev (>= 0.139) | not+linux-gnu,
> >> libhal-dev (>= 0.5.10) | linux-gnu,
>
> >I don't think it's a bug. The system type on those architectures is
> >"linux-gnuspe" or "linux-gnueabi", not "linux-gnu". If you only want to
> >match on the OS, you should use the "linux" and "not+linux" instead.
>
> This make sense.
>
> So I'm going to mass open bugs against every package which uses
> linux-gnu and tell them to use linux-any which becomes policy once
> #530687. Is this intended? There is actually no reason to use linux-gnu
> instead of linux-any, is there[0]?
> Does the new policy make type-handling obselete since dpkg provides it?
>
type-handling has always been a bit hack, with the (long term) goal to
remove it. It had no replacement until not so long ago, as the build
daemons software was not able to handle it. Now that it has been fixed,
we should certainly get rid of it.
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