Re: qemu depends on missing openbios-sparc
>>>>> Carsten Hey <carsten@stateful.de> writes:
> Hi, please upload openbios-sparc to bpo since qemu/bpo depends on
> it, even if it can be installed from testing.
[...]
> I used dpkg --force-all -i to install openbios-sparc and then used
> apt-get to install the other packages which solved this dependency
> hell but I do not think that using bpo should require either
> knowing and using dpkg --force-... or alternatively adding testing
> to the sources.list and using pinning.
But isn't pinning the recommended way to solve exactly this
problem?
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Packaging
Basic Rules
...
* Reconsider if the package can be installed directly from testing
without any recompilation and handled via pinning
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Why should the efforts on watching over the package be
duplicated, when it's possible to avoid it?
> Please CC me.
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