Bug#252657: dpkg-dev: [arch]-specific Depends broken (see #170575)

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>]

On 2005-03-18 Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 20:42 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > reopen 252657
> > # more clarification needed, I do not intend to play BTS ping-pong
 
> Uh, my bad -- the "-done" on that was accidental.  This bug should
> remain open.

Splendid.

[...] 
> > * dpkg 1.10.11 did not add support for arch-specific entries in
> >   *Depends* and closing 170575 with dpkg 1.10.11's changelog was an
> >   error.
 
> From what I can tell, this is correct.  Support for per-arch BUILD
> dependencies was added, not general dependencies.

Thanks for clearing this up.

Just for the record: For me personally this is just nice to have
not urgent, as it can be worked around with a substitution variables.
             cu andreas
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