Re: Depenency Bugs in Debian Packages (long)
David Coe wrote:
> gecko@master.debian.org wrote:
> > Dependency check for the hurd-i386 architecture
> > Cannot satisfy with packages in main:
> >
> > * iczech: dependency ispell
> > * inorwegian: dependency ispell
> > * ipolish: dependency ispell
> > * ispanish: dependency ispell
>
> I'm the (prospective) new ispell maintainer.
>
> The problem here is that ispell, and most (all
> but the above four) of the ispell dictionaries,
> have "Architecture: i386".
Actually, they have "Architecture: any" in the debian/control file.
Ispell should have that too. If any of them have "Architecture: i386"
in the debian/control file, then they're wrong.
> I suspect that the ispell dictionaries are not
> (should not be) architecture-specific, and that
> should be very easy to fix.
They are, they're byte-order dependent.
> But how can I
> determine whether ispell is i386-specific? (In
> theory it should not be.) Should I just upload
> one with "Architecture: All" and see what fails?
"Any", not "all".
Please re-read section 4.2.3 of the Packaging Manual.
Richard Braakman
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