Bug#619328: console-setup-freebsd: Uninstallable on Linux hosts

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

severity 619328 wishlist
kthxbye

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:36:00 +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:41:39PM +0100, Didier Raboud wrote:
> > 
> > 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 noticed that there are packages (for example pm-utils) whose 
> architecture is 'all' and nonetheless they are not installable on 
> kFreeBSD because of unsatisfiable dependencies.  Does this mean the 
> architectures are not equal in rights - an 'all' package is allowed to 
> be uninsallable on kFreeBSD but not on Linux?
> 
No, it's fine.

Cheers,
Julien