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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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