Bug#597227: not+gnu-linux provided on linux hosts

[Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>]

Package: type-handling
Version: 0.2.23
Severity: important

Hi,

as discussed on IRC, type-handling provides not+gnu-linux on linux
hosts, such as zelenka (s390/lenny) and quantz (amd64/squeeze).

I noticed because some of our hosts started pulling in type-handling
rather than installing the d.o-linux meta package :)


weasel@zelenka:~$ dpkg -s type-handling  | grep Provides | sed -e 's/.*\(not.gnu.linux\).*/\1/'; dpkg -l type-handling | grep '^ii' 
not+gnu-linux
ii  type-handling                                           0.2.23                     dpkg architecture generation script


weasel@quantz:~$ apt-cache show type-handling  | grep Provides | sed -e 's/.*\(not.gnu.linux\).*/\1/'; apt-cache show type-handling | grep Version
not+gnu-linux
Version: 0.2.23

Either I misunderstand the meaning of (not+)gnu-linux, or there's a bug.

Cheers,
weasel