Re: qemu depends on missing openbios-sparc
Ivan Shmakov schrieb am Wednesday, den 10. September 2008:
> >>>>> 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?
Nope. If its on bpo, then I expect that all deps are installable without
pinning. Then even a dependency that would otherwise fail under the mentioned
recommendation should be uploaded.
Alex
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