Bug#619328: console-setup-freebsd: Uninstallable on Linux hosts
Package: console-setup-freebsd
Version: 1.71
Severity: normal
Hi,
as silly as it might sound, I tried to install the arch:all
console-setup-freebsd on my amd64 (aka linux-amd64) and it is not installable
because of "unsatisfiable dependencies". This is likely to forbid the entry
of this package to testing (without manual handling from the Release Team).
I think the "Architecture: all" field (which Policy defines as "architecture-
independent package") is wrong: although the files shipped by the package
aren't "compiled" for a specific CPU architecture, they are still tightly
tied to an architecture in the Debian sense (the name of the package itself
is a sufficient indication of this).
Hence I would suggest to change the Architecture field of
console-setup-freebsd to "kfreebsd-any" (and to linux-any for c-s-linux,
obviously).
Best regards,
OdyX
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers squeeze-updates
APT policy: (500, 'squeeze-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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