Re: Bug#932258: console-setup-freebsd: missing dependency

[Héctor Orón Martínez <hector.oron@gmail.com>]

Hello,

Missatge de Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> del dia dc., 17 de jul.
2019 a les 17:06:

> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 04:15:51PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> >
> > this seems like a problem with console-setup-freebsd being arch:all
> > and depending on kFreeBSD-specific packages which will not be
> > available elsewhere, in the same way console-setup-linux is an
> > arch:all depending on Linux-specific packages.
>
> Why is it a problem to have an arch:all package which is installable
> only on some architectures (due to missing dependencies)?

I noticed the issue while doing a repository consistency check with
main, contrib and non-free components for amd64 architecture on the
buster suite. Tools like wanna-build also do similar checks for
building packages, however this has not been an issue for the
wanna-build checks in the past.

Regards
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