Bug#436650: debian-cd has unmet recommends on some archs
Julian Andres Klode <jak@jak-linux.org> writes:
> The better way would be to modify dpkg to export these things
> to the binary package, and ignoring all dependencies/etc not for
> your arch at install-time.
If it's an arch all package it mean that it must to work equally on
all arches otherwise it's not arch-independent.
> I would also like to have an option to have a arch-independent package
> installed only to a few architectures (in their packages files).
> The result:
>
> - Less work for the buildds
> - Less stuff to mirror for the mirrors
While I agree that it might happen I also think it's technically
wrong.
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