Bug#585767: Dependencies on linux-gnu or not+linux-gnu do not match armel or powerpcspe correctly
retitle 585767 Meta Bug: Convert all deps on type-handling to arch-wildcards and remove type-handling
severity 585767 wishlist
thanks
On Jun 21, 2010, at 15:56, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 08:35:14PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>> * 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?
>
> type-handling has always been a bit hack, with the (long term) goal to
> remove it. It had no replacement until not so long ago, as the build
> daemons software was not able to handle it. Now that it has been fixed,
> we should certainly get rid of it.
Ok, just to confirm, dependencies should be rewritten along these lines:
"$DEPENDENCY | not+linux-gnu" => "$DEPENDENCY [linux-any]"
"$DEPENDENCY | not+linux" => "$DEPENDENCY [linux-any]"
"$DEPENDENCY | linux-gnu" => "$DEPENDENCY [!linux-any]"
"$DEPENDENCY | linux" => "$DEPENDENCY [!linux-any]"
"$DEPENDENCY | not+hurd" => "$DEPENDENCY [hurd-any]"
"$DEPENDENCY | hurd" => "$DEPENDENCY [!hurd-any]"
Since there are already a number of packages with dependencies like these in squeeze, it should be possible for maintainers to apply these changes right now, correct?
Thanks again!
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
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