Re: Unofficial Debian 'testing' FAQ (was Re: Packages in queue for woody?)
One thing I've encountered is problems due to arch-independent
packages. Specifically, I had some situations where (AIUI) arch-independent
packages were depending on arch-dependent packages, and they couldn't be
moved to testing because of that.
In particular, heroes and related packages finally made it into
testing after I:
(a) weakened Depends: heroes and Depends: heroes-common to Recommends
in the data packages.
(b) Made heroes-common an architecture-dependent package.
It took me months to think to try this.
Mentioning the Arch: all problem in the FAQ is probably a good idea.
Daniel
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