Getting rid of type-handling from the archive
Hi!
I've been filing bug reports on packages Build-Depending on
type-handling to switch to native arch wildcards, the bugs still open
are:
#639117 [w|+| ] e2tools: Remove unused type-handling from Build-Depends
#639332 [w|+| ] buildcross: Remove deprecated Depends on type-handling
#639164 [w|+P| ] gdb: Stop using deprecated type-handling Build-Depends
The remaining issue is the virtual architectures Provided by
type-handling itself used in dependency fields, which are known to
cause problems on buildds.
Before even considering its removal I think we should know how many
packages make use of those virtual architecture dependencies, and file
bugs accordingly (maybe after a mass-bug discussion on devian-devel).
Those would need to be checked against every architecture Packages file
for anything matching «dpkg-architecture -L» output, and the split
cpu/system variants.
Thorsten Glaser proposed to try to make this a release goal, but even
if we've had in mind getting rid of type-handling for a long time, I
don't think I could take active responsibility of such release goal at
the moment.
Anyone volunteers?
thanks,
guillem
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