Bug#585767: Dependencies on linux-gnu or not+linux-gnu do not match armel or powerpcspe correctly

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>]

* Aurelien Jarno | 2010-06-14 12:00:14 [+0200]:

>>   libudev-dev (>= 0.139) | not+linux-gnu,
>>   libhal-dev (>= 0.5.10) | linux-gnu,

>I don't think it's a bug. The system type on those architectures is
>"linux-gnuspe" or "linux-gnueabi", not "linux-gnu". If you only want to
>match on the OS, you should use the "linux" and "not+linux" instead.

This make sense.

So I'm going to mass open bugs against every package which uses
linux-gnu and tell them to use linux-any which becomes policy once
#530687. Is this intended? There is actually no reason to use linux-gnu
instead of linux-any, is there[0]?
Does the new policy make type-handling obselete since dpkg provides it?

[0] Assuming that "linux-any is not allowed by policy" is not a reason.

Sebastian