Re: [GSoC] Check architectures

[Emmanouil Kiagias <e.kiagias@gmail.com>]

Hello Andreas,

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:

I do not think that there is any sense in having separate metapackages
for Architecture=all.  The metapackages will be installed on a certain
architecture.  For this architecture (i.e. amd64) you have a metapackage
for instance

    med-bio_<version>_amd64.deb

there is no way to install any package

    med-bio_<version>_all.deb

in parallel.  So for every single architecture we need to create
metapackages featuring the packages for this architecture plus those
packages that are architecture = all which I expressed in my original
examle query in sql/blendsd_change_dependency by

  ...  architecture in ('$3', 'all' ))  ...

and which in your python code properly was turned into

  ...  architecture in ('{2}', 'all' )) ...

Thanks I got the idea.

There is no point at all to turn this into

  architecture in ('all', 'all' ))

because there is no practical relevance for such a metapackage.

For example these are the key sentences that explain the reason of the change, thanks, I will try to use more proper wording(like you did here) when I describe something because I may lead to misunderstandings and wrong meanings.

Kind regards

Emmanouil