Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> (09/02/2010):
> Hi Cyril,
Hello,
> So you're subscribed to d-boot now? :-)
yes, it's probably going to make things easier. :)
> On Tuesday 09 February 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> (09/02/2010):
> > > This format is not (yet) allowed by policy: rootskel-gtk
> > > (>=0.05) [!s390] (except for build dependencies)
> >
> > AFAICT, it just works, and not only for Build-Depends. It can't be
> > used for an arch: all package, though, since it gets substituted
> > at build time, so it probably won't do what you would want.
>
> I know that it is going to be allowed in the future and because of
> that I don't doubt that it (mostly?) works. But AFAIK *currently*
> it's not allowed by policy [1], except for build deps. And thus it
> should not yet be used in uploads.
Oops, indeed. Looks like I forgot about that particular point, thanks
for pointing this out. It looks like I've been taking it granted for
quite some time.
> That other packages violate policy is not really a convincing
> argument.
(Sure, it just wanted to point an existing example out.)
> A reference to an (official) statement from FTP-masters would be.
I'd rather have -policy@ folks share their mind about it. I guess
updating the Policy to allow limiting non-build-time relationships
(Depends, Recommends, …) to some architectures would be nice to
have.
I'm not sure whether warning people about the substitution which
happens at build time[1] would have its place in the Policy since that
could be considered an (dpkg-dev) implementation detail (but that can
cause some headaches).
Mraw,
KiBi.
[1] Meaning an Architecture: all package with Depends: foo [bar] will
have foo, or won't have foo, depending on which architecture it
will be built upon, rather than the conditional Depends stored in
the resulting binary.
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